The patch titled paravirtualization: Allow selected bug checks to be skipped by paravirt kernels has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was paravirtualization-allow-selected-bug-checks-to-be.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: paravirtualization: Allow selected bug checks to be skipped by paravirt kernels From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Allow selected bug checks to be skipped by paravirt kernels. The two most important are the F00F workaround (which is either done by the hypervisor, or not required), and the 'hlt' instruction check, which can break under some hypervisors. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 2 +- include/asm-i386/bugs.h | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c~paravirtualization-allow-selected-bug-checks-to-be arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c~paravirtualization-allow-selected-bug-checks-to-be +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static void __cpuinit init_intel(struct * Note that the workaround only should be initialized once... */ c->f00f_bug = 0; - if ( c->x86 == 5 ) { + if (!paravirt_enabled() && c->x86 == 5) { static int f00f_workaround_enabled = 0; c->f00f_bug = 1; diff -puN include/asm-i386/bugs.h~paravirtualization-allow-selected-bug-checks-to-be include/asm-i386/bugs.h --- a/include/asm-i386/bugs.h~paravirtualization-allow-selected-bug-checks-to-be +++ a/include/asm-i386/bugs.h @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #include <asm/processor.h> #include <asm/i387.h> #include <asm/msr.h> +#include <asm/paravirt.h> static int __init no_halt(char *s) { @@ -91,6 +92,9 @@ static void __init check_fpu(void) static void __init check_hlt(void) { + if (paravirt_enabled()) + return; + printk(KERN_INFO "Checking 'hlt' instruction... "); if (!boot_cpu_data.hlt_works_ok) { printk("disabled\n"); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch prep-for-paravirt-be-careful-about-touching-bios.patch prep-for-paravirt-be-careful-about-touching-bios-warning-fix.patch paravirtualization-header-and-stubs-for-fix.patch paravirtualization-patch-inline-replacements-for-fix-2.patch paravirtualization-patch-inline-replacements-for-fix-3.patch paravirtualization-more-generic-paravirtualization-warning-fix.patch generic-bug-implementation.patch generic-bug-for-i386.patch generic-bug-for-x86-64.patch bug-test-1.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html