linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Cleanup: rationalize paravirt wrappers

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Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:09:32 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
CC:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cleanup: rationalize paravirt wrappers

Rusty Russell wrote:
> The behaviour change (don't oops when an invalid rdmsr is used) was
> there with CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y, the cleanup just made !CONFIG_PARAVIRT the
> same.  Is it important?
>   

We could always fling a BUG_ON in the non-safe versions, which would
probably be more informative than a GPF or whatever a bad MSR gives you.

    J
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