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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:07:27 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][STABLE] kvm: Fix cpuid initialization
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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.