Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> actually, those MSRs are really architecture-defined for P6 family >>> CPUs. So KVM/qemu should at least fake something there, or ignore it. >>> These MSRs might be ticked by various existing kernels and >>> distributions. Performance counters are ignored at the moment? >>> >> They are unimplemented, and tricky to implement. Just swallowing the >> wrmsr is easy, but it won't do the expected thing, whatever that is. >> > > the expected thing is to get periodic watchdog NMIs injected - but it's > not a big problem if that doesnt work, the watchdog code detects that. > Crashing during bootup isnt too sexy though. >
I'll queue it for implementation then (it's just a variant of the timer interrupt). Swallowing the wrmsr may be ok for Linux, but may cause other guests to fail unpredictably. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
