Pavel Machek wrote:
On Sat 2006-10-28 00:00:04, Chris Wright wrote:
Allow selected bug checks to be skipped by paravirt kernels. The two most
important are the F00F workaround (which is either done by the hypervisor,
or not required), and the 'hlt' instruction check, which can break under
some hypervisors.
How can hlt check break? It is hlt;hlt;hlt, IIRC, that looks fairly
innocent to me.
Not if you use tickless timers that don't generate interrupts to unhalt
you, or if you delay ticks until the next scheduled timeout and you
haven't yet scheduled any timeout. Both are likely in a hypervisor.
Zach
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