Re: Another preempt folding issue?

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:37:13AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Another reporter also saw this on an AMD and said it could not be reproduced on
> > the same hardware and the same software versions when using 64bit instead of 32.
> > 
> > In my case on a 32bit installation I will see this on every invocation of
> 
> Curious.. so its both AMD and Intel.
> 
> That makes funny hardware less likely... but how can the vmexit loose an
> interrupt like this.

Also what I'm wondering about and what's not clear from Stefan's reply
is whether this is purely a 32-bit issue, i.e. a 32-bit host running a
64-bit qemu running a 32-bit iso or what is it?

Or do we have reports for both 32-bit and 64-bit hosts?

Thanks.

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    Boris.

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