Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264046AbTEOOjE (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 10:39:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264047AbTEOOjE (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 10:39:04 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:4291 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264046AbTEOOjD (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2003 10:39:03 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 07:47:39 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] VMWare doesn't like sysenter Message-Id: <20030515074739.223a6c28.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 730 Lines: 23 On Thu, 15 May 2003 04:02:31 -0400 (EDT) Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: | I get a monitor error in VMWare4 with a sysenter syscall enabled kernel, | this patch simply disables sysenter based syscalls but doesn't clear the | SEP bit in the capabilities. | +static int __init do_nosysenter(char *s) | +{ | + nosysenter = 1; | + return 1; | +} | +__setup("nosysenter", do_nosysenter); Needs entry in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt also if/when accepted. -- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/