Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:47:23 -0500 (CDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] SLAB changes for v2.6.39-rc1 |
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On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > this_cpu_cmpxchg16b_emu: > > pushf > > cli > > > > cmpq %gs:(%rsi), %rax
> Random guess > > Masking interrupts, and accessing vmalloc() based memory for the first > time ?
Hmmm.. Could be. KVM would not really disable interrupts so this may explain that the test case works here.
Simple fix would be to do a load before the cli I guess.
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