linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Remove cmpxchg from i386 NMI nesting code

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Date:	Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:23:59 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Remove cmpxchg from i386 NMI nesting code

Just use a VM or a simulator.


"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org> wrote:

>On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
>> "Idiot! Why the f*ck are you running i386 on your nice shiny new
>x86_64
>> machine, with Umpteen Gigs of RAM. Boot a x86_64 kernel for Christ
>sake
>> and get your full potential. Your i386 userspace will still work just
>> fine on it. You're like one of those 75 year old retirees that can
>> finally buy a Porsche just to drive it 10 miles per hour below the
>speed
>> limit with a line of cars behind them!"
>
>:)  Yeah, if only native x86_64 could run vm86 so as to ask the VGA
>BIOS 
>to unbotch the graphics card that shot itself into the foot for
>whatever 
>reason, sigh...
>
>  Maciej

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