On 31/07/2018 14:57, tedheadster wrote: >> >> This shouldn't be necessary; for systems that don't have virtualization >> extensions, the comment explains why setting X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL is safe. >> >> But it is also wrong, because you can run a 32-bit kernel as a guest on >> a 64-bit processor, and then it should set X86_FEATURE_VMMCALL because >> the processor has the vmmcall instruction and not Intel's vmcall. >> > > Paolo, > I'm running this on a bare metal machine (no virtualization) with a > 32-bit AMD i486 class cpu. Should the feature be showing up in > /proc/cpuinfo under the 'flags' line? It does on my machine, and it > looked wrong to me.
It's a bit silly, but it's not particularly wrong. Paolo
