Re: kvm_amd BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000014

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On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 08:20:42AM -0500, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/07/2011 03:16 PM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:

> > According to the comments in stackprotector.h its the same on amd64 (the
> > difference is that gcc expects the canary value at a different offset
> > from %gs).
> > So we should probably unlazy %gs reload alltogether.
> 
> On x86_64 we don't do lazy %gs reload (lazy %fs instead), so it should 
> work as is.

Right. I mixed that up with the lazy KERNEL_GS_BASE switching on amd64.

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