Re: [PATCH][2.5] VMWare doesn't like sysenter

From: Randy.Dunlap (rddunlap@osdl.org)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 09:47:39 EST

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On Thu, 15 May 2003 04:02:31 -0400 (EDT) Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> wrote:

| I get a monitor error in VMWare4 with a sysenter syscall enabled kernel,
| this patch simply disables sysenter based syscalls but doesn't clear the
| SEP bit in the capabilities.

| +static int __init do_nosysenter(char *s)
| +{
| + nosysenter = 1;
| + return 1;
| +}
| +__setup("nosysenter", do_nosysenter);

Needs entry in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt also
if/when accepted.

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~Randy
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