Anyone find a work-around for this issue yet? On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Ernest Mueller <ernest.muel...@ni.com> wrote: > > Hey, great find, I'm glad to know that this wasn't all "me being crazy." > I'm impressed this went from problem ID to a new test kernel version in 2 > months flat. I've pinged Amazon to see if they can get on the track of > this too; I suspect they aren't exactly uptaking kernel changes quickly but > we'll find out. > > (Sorry this is a bit delayed, I don't read the list regularly, I come back > and search every month to see if anyone's found the problem yet - looks > like I hit the jackpot this time!) > > Ernest > > > I'm not into Cygwin development enough to know what a BLODA is, but you > > may like to know the bug is in the Xen hypervisor used by Amazon. I > > don't know exactly what releases or Xen are affected, but for sure all > > RHEL5 (and CentOS 5) hypervisors are. > > > > The reason why you see it only on 64-bit Windows, is that the bug is > > about Xen mishandling the SWAPGS instruction which, well, is only > > present in 64-bit processors and in 64-bit mode. > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613187 > > > > Paolo > > > > ps: KVM was also affected until last February. I haven't checked if > > RHEL/CentOS KVM has the bug, but I'll ask fellow developers around about > it. > ______________________ > UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of > this IMPORTANT information is ENCOURAGED. > >
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