Re: [Xen-devel] results

[Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Ian Pratt wrote:
> 
> > Which nvidia driver? One in the Linux kernel, or can it work just
> > by using a suitable driver in the Xserver?  What mechanism does
> > it use to write the mtrr's ? (these could be virtualised without
> > too much trouble -- there's already an rd/wrmsr.)
> 
> latest driver, which is of course mostly a binary module. I'll look for 
> what source I can. 
> 
> I am guessing it stupidly does a rdmsr/wrmsr since it got the GPF.

Ouch, if its a binary driver its probably pretty doomed. All
sorts of things could be causing problems e.g. cli/sti. Doing an
objdump -d  and doing a bit of grep'ing might reveal the scale of
the problem.

For a laugh, why not fire-up your favourite binary editor and
turn the rd/wrmsr's into nops. (You could do do them in the
src wrapper anyhow.)

If you actually get somewhere with this approach, we could
consider having a special linux GPF handler that decodes the
instruction and patches these up. Barf.

Ian



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