Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 23:00:39 +0200 From: Teufel <bsd@kuehlbox.de> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Subject: Re: seems I finally found what upset kqemu on amd64 SMP... shared gdt! (please test patch :) Message-ID: <48260CF7.5050700@kuehlbox.de> In-Reply-To: <20080509220922.GA13480@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <20080507162713.73A3A5B47@mail.bitblocks.com> <20080508195843.G17500@delplex.bde.org> <20080509220922.GA13480@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
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> Okay I _think_ I know a little more about this now... kqemu itself > doesn't use the fpu, but the guest code it runs can, and in that case the > DNA trap is just used for (host) lazy fpu context switching like as if the > code was running in userland regularly. And I just tested the following > patch that should get rid of the message by calling fpudna/npxdna directly > (files/patch-fpucontext is the interesting part:) Applied the patch today and I can confirm, there are no more dna messages as expected. A win2k3 guest runs now couple of hours with some stress test and the kernel is still fine. I think this patch solves the broken kqemu on amd64. Great work.
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