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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] small adjustment to asm constraintsforc/s19400

To: "Guanqun Lu" <guanqun.lu@xxxxxxxxx>, "Kevin Tian" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] small adjustment to asm constraintsforc/s19400
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:30:02 +0100
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>>> "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> 31.03.09 13:09 >>>
>Thanks. After recovering those 3 SYSENTER MSRs, now 32-on-64
>S3 could succeeds several times which is a big step. However there
>seems to be some other instability issues to cause machine 
>occasionally reboot after more S3 actions. Both screen and serial
>port is dark and thus no more info is available. We'll continue to dig out 
>the exact reason. But this shouldn't prevent sending out this 
>reasonable fix anyway.

I think you need to be a little more careful here - subarch_percpu_traps_init()
writes them only on Intel CPUs, and I think you ought to follow this for
both saving and restoring them.

Jan



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