linux-kernel - Re: transparent huge pages breaks KVM on AMD.

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Message-ID: <20160513140319.GI9143@torres.zugschlus.de>
Date:	Fri, 13 May 2016 16:03:19 +0200
From:	Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de>
To:	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@...blig.org>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm ML <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: transparent huge pages breaks KVM on AMD.

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 09:35:45AM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> also between 4.4 and 4.5 it did seem worth mentioning as a long shot,
> but it was no more than a long shot.

It was however helpful. I'd have bisected kernel configuration instead
of using the runtime control first, and seeing your long shot two
weeks earlier, it'd have saved myself those two weeks of tedious
bisecting.

> Try Andrea's fix for (a).

In the works.

Greetings
Marc

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