Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933370AbXBACwr (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:52:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933377AbXBACwr (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:52:47 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:16339 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933370AbXBACwq (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:52:46 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TPy51bVs6OV909o7HARiKIMid39LC/gsiusLgpipDV1DKnUk8SDuOWA/Qt8+H1G2aJ83eg1B5waLf72Xjd21QJ91mm3uZO19dwDbmV2WensG7pCdmMdAzEzq9HwgzwHzlc1NdK0Vf+tumpqSmZlWDiIGbCIk/qN+N6HaVsIr4QA= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:52:40 +0800 From: "Jeff Chua" To: "Avi Kivity" Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] KVM: Fix lockup on 32-bit intel hosts with nx disabled in the bios Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070131150017.020B9A0014@il.qumranet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070131150017.020B9A0014@il.qumranet.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 705 Lines: 17 On 1/31/07, Avi Kivity wrote: > Intel hosts, without long mode, and with nx support disabled in the bios > have an efer that is readable but not writable. This causes a lockup on > switch to guest mode (even though it should exit with reason 34 according to > the documentation). Avi, thank you for the patch. I can confirm that this patch works on my IBM X60s notebook. Without it, the whole PC locks up upon starting qemu. Thanks, Jeff. - 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/