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Re: [Xen-devel] RE: kernel panic when enable x2apic
 
Keir Fraser wrote:
 
On 30/11/2010 09:23, "Keir Fraser" <keir@xxxxxxx> wrote:
   
The obvious solution is to remove
boot_cpu_data.x86_capability[4] = cpuid_ecx(1) in start_vmx. It indeed
works with the change. I will send out the patch after more tests.
       
 
Yes, the write to x86_capability is totally unnecessary. There is a similar
pointless one in SVM code -- in fact they don't even manage to write to the
correct array element of x86_capability[]!
Removing both writes to x86_capability[] would be an appropriate fix for 4.0
branch as well.
     
 
I applied a fix to xen-unstable and xen-4.0-testing. Eyeballing plus a quick
test convinces me it is absolutely fine. I credited you in the changeset
comment, I hope that's okay.
   
 
Great!
Regards,
Weidong
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