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Re: port-amd64/49150: xrstor is privileged in Xen



The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/49150; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: port-amd64-maintainer%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-amd64/49150: xrstor is privileged in Xen
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 09:54:46 +0200

 On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 05:25:00AM +0000, 
jnemeth%CornerstoneService.ca@localhost wrote:
 > >Description:
 >      The xrstor instruction is privileged in Xen and the use of
 > it leads to a panic, "fatal privileged instruction fault in supervisor
 > mode".
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >      Attempt to boot a NetBSD 7 BETA domu kernel and watch it go
 > boom at mountroot time.
 
 that's strange, amd64 XEN3_DOMU boots fine here:
 http://www-soc.lip6.fr/~bouyer/NetBSD-tests/xen/netbsd-7/
 
 Can you give more details about your setup (CPU, xen version) ?
 
 -- 
 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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