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From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: Paravirt-ops VMI / Xen / lrustyvisor merge status
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:59:22 -0800
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To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 22:12 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
>   =

>> I think the only other open issue we had was how to cleanly do the =

>> sysenter disable for Xen.  We want it on for sure, and so does native, =

>> but Xen needs to disable it.
>>     =

>
> I disable it too: you simply make sure cpuid says it doesn't have SEP
> and it's all good...
>
> A little confused,
> Rusty.
>   =


I believe there was a patch that got applied that turned it off by =

default if CONFIG_PARAVIRT was enabled.  Doing it the cpuid way is the =

right solution, IMHO.

Zach