From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][STABLE] kvm: Fix cpuid initialization
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:07:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090413140727.GA13193@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E2FD72.6000101@web.de>
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:53:06AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> [ Looks like we need more kvm users via upstream qemu... ]
>
> Fix (more or less) spurious guest boot failures due to corrupted cpuid
> states. The reason was insufficient initialization of cpuid entries
> before passing them to the kernel.
>
> At this chance also fix improper entry pointer progression and simplify
> the code a bit.
Is that guest kernel stuck on the "testing hlt" message in the Linux
kernel with that one? I've seen that hang for a while now, but haven't
been able to bisect it yet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-13 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-13 8:53 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][STABLE] kvm: Fix cpuid initialization Jan Kiszka
2009-04-13 14:07 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-04-13 16:20 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-04-13 18:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-04-17 21:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
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