Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH/RFC] Fix xsave bug on older Xenhypervisors

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Fri Sep 07 2012 - 11:52:00 EST


>>> On 07.09.12 at 17:47, Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07.09.2012 17:44, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> All of this still doesn't provide evidence that a plain upstream
>> kernel is actually having any problems in the first place. Further,
>> if you say EC2 has a crippled hypervisor patch - is that patch
>> available for looking at somewhere?
>
> It was not a hypervisor patch. It was one for the guest. This was the hack:

So then why do you want to patch the upstream kernel? It won't
make that hack go away, nor will it help any existing kernels.

Jan

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