KVM: Late fixes for the 2.6.23 merge window

2007-07-17 Thread Avi Kivity
A trio of issues were discovered and fixed while bringing up smp guests: - An nx huge page table shadow could alias a real mode shadow page table, causing the real mode page to be treated as not executable. For certain newer Linux kernels, this caused kvm to spin on the smp trampoline.

KVM: Late fixes for the 2.6.23 merge window

2007-07-17 Thread Avi Kivity
A trio of issues were discovered and fixed while bringing up smp guests: - An nx huge page table shadow could alias a real mode shadow page table, causing the real mode page to be treated as not executable. For certain newer Linux kernels, this caused kvm to spin on the smp trampoline.