On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 09:19:20AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Most big distro kernels on bare metal have CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y (I checked
> Ubuntu and
> Fedora), so we are potentially exposing a lot of users to problems.
+ SUSE.
> Crashing the bootup on an unknown MSR is bad. Many MSR reads and writes are
> non-critical and returning the 'safe' result is much better than crashing or
> hanging the bootup.
... and prepending all MSR accesses with feature/CPUID checks is probably almost
impossible.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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