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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Alok kataria <alokkataria1@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Yan Li <elliot.li.tech@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"joerg.roedel@amd.com" <joerg.roedel@amd.com>,
	"rjmaomao@gmail.com" <rjmaomao@gmail.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Daniel Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>, Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] VMware detection support for x86 and x86-64
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:45:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080925094546.02839e66@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222320201.23524.135.camel@alok-dev1>

> have a real device there (a sane one), what can IN result in apart from
> reading some IO register/counter value in eax ?
> If there is anything apart from the above 2 outcomes, please let me know
> exactly what you mean.

Changing the status of the device that is actually at the port, losing
IRQs, hanging the bus solid, causing data corruption (eg if you probe the
address of the data port of something like a disk doing a block transfer)

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-25  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-21 11:32 [PATCH] X86: remove WARN_ON if MTRRs are all blank Joerg Roedel
2008-02-21 11:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-21 12:47   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-02-21 13:03     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-21 13:27       ` Joerg Roedel
2008-09-07 23:45   ` [PATCH 1/2] VMware detection support for x86 and x86-64 Yan Li
2008-09-08  0:36     ` David Dillow
2008-09-08  1:49       ` Yan Li
2008-09-08 14:04     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-09  0:20       ` Yan Li
2008-09-09  0:34         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-09 12:28           ` Yan Li
2008-09-09 20:12             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-16 13:32           ` Yan Li
2008-09-17 10:52             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-17 14:03               ` Yan Li
2008-09-17 14:10                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-17 15:38                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-24 12:22                     ` [PATCH 1/2] VMware guest detection " Yan Li
2008-09-24 14:10                       ` Cristi Magherusan
2008-09-24 14:23                         ` Yan Li
2008-09-24 16:19                           ` Alok kataria
2008-09-24 16:21                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25  0:19                               ` Yan Li
2008-09-25  0:15                             ` Yan Li
2008-09-25  0:26                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25  2:34                                 ` Yan Li
2008-09-24 18:13                           ` Cristi Magherusan
2008-09-24 18:16                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25  0:23                             ` Yan Li
2008-09-25  1:28                               ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-09-24 16:19                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25  0:32                         ` Yan Li
2008-09-25  0:37                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25  2:48                             ` Yan Li
2008-09-25  9:56                           ` David Sanders
2008-09-25 10:23                             ` Yan Li
2008-09-25  2:23                       ` Greg KH
2008-09-25  2:47                         ` Yan Li
2008-09-25  2:55                           ` Greg KH
2008-09-25  3:29                             ` Yan Li
2008-09-25  4:54                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25 12:56                               ` Greg KH
2008-09-25 14:38                               ` Yan Li
2008-09-25  2:28       ` [PATCH 1/2] VMware detection support " Alok kataria
2008-09-25  4:38         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25  4:46           ` Alok Kataria
2008-09-25  4:54             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25  5:02               ` Alok Kataria
2008-09-25  5:04                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25  5:23                   ` Alok Kataria
2008-09-25  5:30                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25  8:45                     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-09-25 20:48                     ` Zachary Amsden
2008-09-25 21:59                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-25 22:20                         ` Zachary Amsden
2008-09-25 22:27                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-26 12:27                             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-09-26 12:47                             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-09-26 13:22                               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-09-26 17:37                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-03 14:12                                   ` Pavel Machek
2008-09-26 20:35                                 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-09-25 22:17                       ` David Sanders
2008-09-07 23:47   ` [PATCH 2/2] avoid mtrr warning message when running as VMware guest Yan Li

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