Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU FreeBSD 6.1 "npxdna: fpcurthread == curthread" spewage

["Zach Metzinger" <zmetzing@gmail.com>]

Let me know if you need any testing. I have both 6.1-RELEASE and
5.3-RELEASE machines on which to test.

Thanks, and this is a truly great bit of software!

--- Zach

On 6/21/06, Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org> wrote:
> There is a bug in the FPU virtualization in kqemu which is only visible
> in the kernel virtualization case. I am trying a fix.
>
> Fabrice.
>
> Zach Metzinger wrote:
> > Hi-
> >
> > I'm using qemu-0.8.1 under FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE from ports with
> > kqemu-1.3.0pre7 (also from ports). The guest OS is Windows XP SP2.
> > When I use the -kernel-kqemu flag to qemu, I get the following kernel
> > console messages:
> >
> > Jun 21 14:04:57 jitter kernel: npxdna: fpcurthread == curthread 5173 times
> > Jun 21 14:04:57 jitter kernel: npxdna: fpcurthread == curthread 5174 times
> > <...>
> >
> > This happens quite a bit (5-10 a second) when using any block device.
> > I assume this is because kernel I/O calls are being virtualized and
> > are the cause of this.
> >
> > When I do not use -kernel-kqemu, I do not get these messages. In both
> > cases, Windows appears to work fine.
> >
> > This thread:
> > http://tinyurl.com/mbm5l
> > appears to have some information on why this happens. Has a patch been
> > released to fix this bug?
> >
> > --- Zach
> >
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