linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH/RFC] Fix xsave bug on older Xen hypervisors

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Message-Id: <504A347B0200007800099E92@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
Date:	Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:52:59 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Stefan Bader" <stefan.bader@...onical.com>
Cc:	"Matt Wilson" <msw@...zon.com>,
	"Justin M. Forbes" <jmforbes@...uxtx.org>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	"Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH/RFC] Fix xsave bug on older Xen
 hypervisors

>>> On 07.09.12 at 17:47, Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com> wrote:
> On 07.09.2012 17:44, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> All of this still doesn't provide evidence that a plain upstream
>> kernel is actually having any problems in the first place. Further,
>> if you say EC2 has a crippled hypervisor patch - is that patch
>> available for looking at somewhere?
> 
> It was not a hypervisor patch. It was one for the guest. This was the hack:

So then why do you want to patch the upstream kernel? It won't
make that hack go away, nor will it help any existing kernels.

Jan

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