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[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/5] fix fpswa and related issues.

To: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/5] fix fpswa and related issues.
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:16:17 -0700
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On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 18:29 +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> Hi. This patch series addresses the bug reported as
> http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1392
> Please test it.
> 
> It includes some clean ups and a reimplementation of fpswa hypercall.
> When fp fault/trap occurs, xen vmm tries to get a bundle in question
> from guest virtual address space. It sometimes fails because of
> I/D tlb cache. In that case inject the fault/trap into a guest
> and let a guest to call fpswa hypercall.

Hi Isaku,

I've been testing this for a few hours today (over 25k iterations) and
it seems to fix the problem for me.  Thanks!

Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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