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Message-ID: <e800d7e3-5d72-4eb2-a782-23dbbfddcb28@email.android.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:31:12 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
CC: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>,
kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] kvm: guest can not startup due to triple fault
That would probably be a good idea. The kernel also sets and clears bits for various errata or other special issues.
"Avi Kivity" <avi@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 10/19/2010 04:56 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Right... note in particular that the BIOS sets them up inconsistently. The kernel is doing the rufht thing: since NX isn't available on all processors it is considered unavailable.
>
>I guess kvm should be modified to mask GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID results with
>the boot_cpu features. This will make kvm take advantage of the core
>kernel doing the right thing.
>
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