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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] xen on suse 9.3 and software raid 
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On 12 May 2005, at 15:28, Gerd Knorr wrote:
 
(which is called by raid6_before_mmx, which in turn is called by
raid6_mmx1_gen_syndrome, both calls not visible in the trace
because they are inlined).
Ideas how to fix that?  Other than just disabling raid6?  Can
that code be replaced with xen hypercalls?  fsave & frestore
are also used btw.  It's all in drivers/md/raid6x86.h
 
This is a known issue with Xen 2.0, already fixed in unstable (by 
emulating the privileged instructions). 
There are three options here:
1. Live with it. Disable raid6 in Xen 2.0 and wait for upgrade to 
forthcoming Xen 3.0. 
 2. Backport some of the privileged-instruction emulation to Xen 2.0.
3. Patch the raid6x86.h for Xen 2.0 to do hypercalls rather than priv 
instructions. 
I think either options 1 or 2 would be best. Backporting the relevant 
bits of the instruction decoder and emulator from the unstable 
repository would not be very difficult, if this is a big show-stopper 
for anyone. 
 -- Keir
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