Re: [PATCH] X86: don't print a warning when MTRR are blank andrunning in KVM

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Feb 22 2008 - 05:01:18 EST



* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm not sure how we could detect pure Qemu instances - perhaps it should
>>>> define some special MSR or something?
>>> Perhaps they should fix the Qemu BIOS to actually simulate working MSRs;
>>> if nothing else, they should set up the default MTRR to be cachable.
>>
>> btw., should KVM do the same?
>
> Yes. Especially since they share a BIOS.

ok. Then i guess we should just leave the warning and the backtrace in
place until they get a fix done?

Ingo
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