On 08/12/2010 01:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> http://dch.posterous.com/cygwin-dumps-core-on-windows-2008-r1sp2-on-ec
> So, this muse-ing of yours is not correct.
To me this implies that the Amazon Cloud VMs have some BLODA installed
by default. I'm not going to check this voluntarily. I suggest that
somebody who wants to run Cygwin on such a machine investigates this
further, or just asks Amazon to fix this and hope for the best.
I'm not into Cygwin development enough to know what a BLODA is, but you
may like to know the bug is in the Xen hypervisor used by Amazon. I
don't know exactly what releases or Xen are affected, but for sure all
RHEL5 (and CentOS 5) hypervisors are.
The reason why you see it only on 64-bit Windows, is that the bug is
about Xen mishandling the SWAPGS instruction which, well, is only
present in 64-bit processors and in 64-bit mode.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613187
Paolo
ps: KVM was also affected until last February. I haven't checked if
RHEL/CentOS KVM has the bug, but I'll ask fellow developers around about it.
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