On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 01:42:14PM +0200, Christoph Lechner wrote: > Gleb Natapov wrote: > > This printk no longer exists in upstream kvm. > > > > just to be curious: What was the reason to add that debugging message? > Because well behaved OS shouldn't read write only register. Unfortunately older Linux kernels sometimes uses xchg to access eoi(b0) apic register which will generate read/write. > I don't know much about the background of the message, but I assume that > it is useful. So wouldn't it be a idea to keep the code for the message > where it is and just throttle the rate it is reported? > It's not too much useful unless you are debugging a guest. -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html