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Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:41:39 +0200
From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use BIOS reboot on Toshiba Portege 4000
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Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> We probably need to disable vmx on all CPUs, but emergency reboot skips
> native_smp_send_stop() (where we could hook a virt_disable call in).
>
> As relying on IPIs defeats the whole point of emergency_restart, a proper
> fix will need to use NMIs like the kdump code does.
>   

They should use the same code; they have a similar environment at entry 
and reliability requirements for e_r are not greater than kdump's.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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