Hey, great find, I'm glad to know that this wasn't all "me being crazy." I'm impressed this went from problem ID to a new test kernel version in 2 months flat. I've pinged Amazon to see if they can get on the track of this too; I suspect they aren't exactly uptaking kernel changes quickly but we'll find out.
(Sorry this is a bit delayed, I don't read the list regularly, I come back and search every month to see if anyone's found the problem yet - looks like I hit the jackpot this time!) Ernest > 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. ______________________ UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT information is ENCOURAGED. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
