Re: [Patch RESEND] x86: don't rely on VMWare emulating PAT MSR correctly

2015-01-18 Thread Alok Kataria
Juergen, thanks for following up on this. X86 maintainers - If it helps let me also confirm that without this patch the latest kernels *always* crash on VMware guest running HWv10 and earlier. Please include the fix at your earliest. Thanks, Alok On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 06:05 +0100, Juergen Gro

Re: [Patch RESEND] x86: don't rely on VMWare emulating PAT MSR correctly

2015-01-18 Thread Juergen Gross
PING! The patch repairs a bug with VMWARE, which has been reported by several users. All of them have confirmed the patch is working. And VMWARE has acked the patch. What else do you need to take it? It is available for over a month now! Juergen On 01/12/2015 06:15 AM, Juergen Gross wrote: VMW

[Patch RESEND] x86: don't rely on VMWare emulating PAT MSR correctly

2015-01-11 Thread Juergen Gross
VMWare seems not to emulate the PAT MSR correctly: reaeding MSR_IA32_CR_PAT returns 0 even after writing another value to it. Detect this bug and don't use the read value if it is 0. Commit bd809af16e3ab1f8d55b3e2928c47c67e2a865d2 ("x86: Enable PAT to use cache mode translation tables") triggers