From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, ak@muc.de, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] Allow selected bug checks to be skipped by paravirt kernels
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 13:17:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061101121753.GA2205@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061029024606.496399000@sous-sol.org>
On Sat 2006-10-28 00:00:04, Chris Wright wrote:
> Allow selected bug checks to be skipped by paravirt kernels. The two most
> important are the F00F workaround (which is either done by the hypervisor,
> or not required), and the 'hlt' instruction check, which can break under
> some hypervisors.
How can hlt check break? It is hlt;hlt;hlt, IIRC, that looks fairly
innocent to me.
> --- linux-2.6-pv.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c
> +++ linux-2.6-pv/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c
> @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static void __cpuinit init_intel(struct
> * Note that the workaround only should be initialized once...
> */
> c->f00f_bug = 0;
> - if ( c->x86 == 5 ) {
> + if (!paravirt_enabled() && c->x86 == 5) {
I'd do x86==5 check first... pentiums are not common any more.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-01 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-29 2:45 [PATCH 0/7] x86 paravirtualization infrastructure Chris Wright
2006-10-28 7:00 ` [PATCH 1/7] header and stubs for paravirtualizing critical operations Chris Wright
2006-10-29 16:40 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-28 7:00 ` [PATCH 2/7] Patch inline replacements for common paravirt operations Chris Wright
2006-10-28 7:00 ` [PATCH 3/7] More generic paravirtualization entry point Chris Wright
2006-10-29 16:41 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-28 7:00 ` [PATCH 4/7] Allow selected bug checks to be skipped by paravirt kernels Chris Wright
2006-11-01 12:17 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-11-01 22:40 ` Dave Jones
2006-11-01 23:24 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-11-02 10:20 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-02 11:04 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-10-28 7:00 ` [PATCH 5/7] Allow disabling legacy power management modes with " Chris Wright
2006-10-28 7:00 ` [PATCH 6/7] Add APIC accessors to paravirt-ops Chris Wright
2006-10-29 16:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-30 3:28 ` Rusty Russell
2006-10-30 23:11 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-30 23:42 ` Chris Wright
2006-10-30 23:46 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-30 23:55 ` Chris Wright
2006-10-31 1:45 ` Rusty Russell
2006-11-01 10:25 ` Rusty Russell
2006-11-01 10:27 ` [PATCH 1/7] paravirtualization: header and stubs for paravirtualizing critical operations Rusty Russell
2006-11-01 10:28 ` [PATCH 2/7] paravirtualization: Patch inline replacements for common paravirt operations Rusty Russell
2006-11-01 10:29 ` [PATCH 3/7] paravirtualization: More generic paravirtualization entry point Rusty Russell
2006-11-01 10:30 ` [PATCH 4/7] paravirtualization: Allow selected bug checks to be skipped by paravirt kernels Rusty Russell
2006-11-01 10:31 ` [PATCH 5/7] paravirtualization: Allow disabling legacy power management modes with " Rusty Russell
2006-11-01 10:32 ` [PATCH 6/7] paravirtualization: Add APIC accessors to paravirt-ops Rusty Russell
2006-11-01 10:34 ` [PATCH 7/7] paravirtualization: Add mmu virtualization " Rusty Russell
2006-11-01 23:31 ` [PATCH 6/7] paravirtualization: Add APIC accessors " Andrew Morton
2006-11-02 0:46 ` Rusty Russell
2006-11-01 23:29 ` [PATCH 4/7] paravirtualization: Allow selected bug checks to be skipped by paravirt kernels Andrew Morton
2006-11-01 23:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-11-02 0:01 ` Rusty Russell
2006-11-01 23:27 ` [PATCH 2/7] paravirtualization: Patch inline replacements for common paravirt operations Andrew Morton
2006-11-02 0:47 ` Rusty Russell
2006-11-02 0:54 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-11-01 10:45 ` [PATCH 1/7] paravirtualization: header and stubs for paravirtualizing critical operations Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-01 17:27 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-01 23:32 ` Rusty Russell
2006-11-02 7:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-02 7:44 ` Oleg Verych
2006-11-03 2:56 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-03 20:35 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-11-03 21:09 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-05 4:43 ` Rusty Russell
2006-11-05 4:59 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-11-05 5:08 ` Rusty Russell
2006-11-05 5:46 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-05 6:18 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-05 6:21 ` Rusty Russell
2006-11-05 6:57 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-18 2:08 ` john stultz
2006-10-28 7:00 ` [PATCH 7/7] Add mmu virtualization to paravirt-ops Chris Wright
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