[PATCH]: Backport KVM Intel MSR fix

[Chris Lalancette]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 04:32:05PM +0200, Chris Lalancette wrote:
>> All,
>>     Currently, RHEL-4.7 and RHEL-5.3(preview) KVM guests will crash on bootup
>> on Intel machines running F-9 kernels.  This is because of a bug in the way that
>> KVM emulates performance counter MSRs.  This was fixed upstream by this commit:
>>
>> http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=efa67e0d1f51842393606034051d805ab9948abd
>>
>> However, it fell into a strange window and missed both 2.6.25 and 2.6.26, but is
>> now in 2.6.27 (which means F-10 will be just fine).  In the interest of helping
>> out the Fedora users (especially for Bugzilla bug 462177 and duplicates), I
>> backported this very simple patch to the current head of F-9 CVS (2.6.26.5).
>> The patch is attached.  If there are no objections, can someone please commit this?
> 
> Attached where?  Has the Zimbra patch goblin eaten it again?

Yes, apparently it has, since my outgoing mail shows it attached.  Hm, let's try
this another way then; patch is available here:

http://people.redhat.com/clalance/linux-2.6.26-intel-msr-backport.patch

Thanks,
-- 
Chris Lalancette