Re: [KVM paravirt issue?] Re: vsyscall=emulate regression

[Avi Kivity]

On 02/24/2012 08:58 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:34 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 02/16/2012 09:39 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Yes, this is on purpose
> >
> > Why?
>
> I think the "this" refers to the PF_INSTR fault when executing at
> 0xffffffffff600xxx.  That's definitely intentional -- it's how
> vsyscall emulation works.
>
> I think it's unintentional that some kvm versions apparently forget to
> set the PF_INSTR bit.
>

Correct.  Can you provide the version that failed, so we can fix it?

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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