Re: [PATCH 0/6] i386 virtualization patches, Set 3

2005-08-16 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This patch set is based on 2.6.13-rc6 -mm1 broken out series. It applies > and builds i386, x86_64, and um-i386 on 2.6.13-rc5. I've tested PAE and > non-PAE SMP kernels and am working on an LDT test suite. Depends on > the i386 cleanups, sub-arch

Re: [PATCH 0/6] i386 virtualization patches, Set 3

2005-08-15 Thread Zachary Amsden
Brian Gerst wrote: If you really want to test the math emu code, you can hack check_x87 in head.S to always leave the fpu disabled. Then you can test it on any cpu, not just a 386. That is a good idea, and while a valid point, it actually still requires writing the code to actually test t

Re: [PATCH 0/6] i386 virtualization patches, Set 3

2005-08-15 Thread Brian Gerst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This round attempts to conclude all of the LDT related cleanup with some finally nice looking LDT code, fixes for the UML build, a bugfix for really rather nasty kprobes problems, and the basic framework for an LDT test suite. It is really rather unfortunate that this co

Re: [PATCH 0/6] i386 virtualization patches, Set 3

2005-08-15 Thread Andi Kleen
> you are forgetting about the embedded market, there 386 cpu (or things > that look like 386 cpu's) are still available. They cannot use it much though because the code is obviously in so bad shape. Perhaps they have all FPUs ? Ok given LDT usage is rare, but still there are probably lots of

Re: [PATCH 0/6] i386 virtualization patches, Set 3

2005-08-15 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:58:09PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to attempt to clean up the math-emu code to make it use the nice new segment and descriptor table accessors, but it quickly became apparent that this would be a long, tedious,

Re: [PATCH 0/6] i386 virtualization patches, Set 3

2005-08-15 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:58:09PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was going to attempt to clean up the math-emu code to make it use the > nice new segment and descriptor table accessors, but it quickly became > apparent that this would be a long, tedious, error prone process that > would event

[PATCH 0/6] i386 virtualization patches, Set 3

2005-08-15 Thread zach
This round attempts to conclude all of the LDT related cleanup with some finally nice looking LDT code, fixes for the UML build, a bugfix for really rather nasty kprobes problems, and the basic framework for an LDT test suite. It is really rather unfortunate that this code is so difficult to test,