Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm_intel fails to load on Conroe CPUs running Linux 4.12 | From | Gerhard Wiesinger <> | Date | Sun, 27 Aug 2017 16:59:11 +0200 |
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On 27.08.2017 14:03, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 27 ago 2017 9:49 AM, "Gerhard Wiesinger" <lists@wiesinger.com> ha > scritto: > > On 17.08.2017 23:14, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: > >> On 17.08.2017 22:58, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: >>> On 07.08.2017 19:50, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >>> >>>> Not much to say, unfortunately. It's pretty much the same capabilities >>>> as a Prescott/Cedar Mill processor, except that it has MSR bitmaps. It >>>> also lacks FlexPriority compared to the Conroe I had checked. >>>> >>>> It's not great that even the revert patch doesn't apply cleanly---this >>>> is *not* necessarily a boring area of the hypervisor... >>>> >>>> Given the rarity of your machine I'm currently leaning towards _not_ >>>> reverting the change. I'll check another non-Xeon Core 2 tomorrow that >>>> is from December 2008 (IIRC). If that one also lacks vNMI, or if I get >>>> other reports, I suppose I will have to reconsider that. >> Hello Paolo, >> >> Can you please revert the patch. >> >> CPU is a Core 2 Extreme QX6700: SL9UL (B3) running VERY stable with ECC >> RAM for years now. >> https://ark.intel.com/products/28028/Intel-Core2-Extreme- >> Processor-QX6700-8M-Cache-2_66-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB?q=Core% >> 202%20Extreme%20QX6700 >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_2_microprocessors >> >> CPU details below. >> >> Thank you. >> >> Ciao, >> Gerhard >> > Hello Paolo, > > Any update on this major issue? > > > We will revert the patch, but 4.13.0 will not have the fix. Expect it in > later stable kernels (because vacations). Thnx. Why will 4.13.0 NOT have the fix?
Thnx.
Ciao, Gerhard
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