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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/7] Allow selected bug checks to be skipped by paravirt kernels
    Pavel Machek wrote:
    > On Sat 2006-10-28 00:00:04, Chris Wright wrote:
    >
    >> Allow selected bug checks to be skipped by paravirt kernels. The two most
    >> important are the F00F workaround (which is either done by the hypervisor,
    >> or not required), and the 'hlt' instruction check, which can break under
    >> some hypervisors.
    >>
    >
    > How can hlt check break? It is hlt;hlt;hlt, IIRC, that looks fairly
    > innocent to me.
    >

    Not if you use tickless timers that don't generate interrupts to unhalt
    you, or if you delay ticks until the next scheduled timeout and you
    haven't yet scheduled any timeout. Both are likely in a hypervisor.

    Zach
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