Re: Commit f06e4ec breaks vmware

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote:

> sad to say, but f06e4ec... breaks booting the kernel in vmware 
> (bisected). Booting just stops after
> 
> 	Checking for 'hlt' instruction...
> 
> commit f06e4ec1c15691b0cfd2397ae32214fa36c90d71
> Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Date:   Wed Jan 30 13:32:39 2008 +0100
> 
>     x86: read_tsc sync
>     
>     make native_read_tsc() always non-speculative.

could you send us the /proc/cpuinfo data of the guest CPU?

if latest -git still fails, does the patch below solve the problem?

	Ingo

---
 include/asm-x86/system.h |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-x86.q/include/asm-x86/system.h
===================================================================
--- linux-x86.q.orig/include/asm-x86/system.h
+++ linux-x86.q/include/asm-x86/system.h
@@ -407,8 +407,7 @@ void default_idle(void);
  */
 static inline void rdtsc_barrier(void)
 {
-	alternative(ASM_NOP3, "mfence", X86_FEATURE_MFENCE_RDTSC);
-	alternative(ASM_NOP3, "lfence", X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC);
+	smp_mb();
 }
 
 #endif