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    SubjectRe: KVM induced panic on 2.6.38[2367] & 2.6.39
    On 08/20/2011 04:16 PM, Brad Campbell wrote:
    > Author: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
    > Date: Thu Jul 1 13:28:27 2010 +0000
    >
    > x86: Drop CONFIG_MCORE2 check around setting of NET_IP_ALIGN
    >
    > This patch removes the CONFIG_MCORE2 check from around
    > NET_IP_ALIGN. It is
    > based on a suggestion from Andi Kleen. The assumption is that
    > there are
    > not any x86 cores where unaligned access is really slow, and this
    > change
    > would allow for a performance improvement to still exist on
    > configurations
    > that are not necessarily optimized for Core 2.
    >
    > Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
    > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    > Cc: x86@kernel.org
    > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
    > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
    > Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    >
    > :040000 040000 5a15867789080a2f67a74b17c4422f85b7a9fb4a
    > b98769348bd765731ca3ff03b33764257e23226c M arch
    >
    > I can confirm this bug exists in the 3.0 kernel, however I'm unable to
    > reproduce it on todays git.
    >
    > So anyone using netfilter, kvm and bridge on kernels between
    > 2.6.36-rc1 and 3.0 may hit this bug, but it looks like it is fixed in
    > the current 3.1-rc kernels.
    >

    Thanks for this effort. I don't think this patch is buggy in itself, it
    merely exposed another bug which was fixed later on.

    --
    I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
    signature is too narrow to contain.



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