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

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

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, jnemeth%CornerstoneService.ca@localhost
Subject: Re: port-amd64/49150: xrstor is privileged in Xen
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 08:34:49 +0100

 On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 04:39:01PM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
 > On 10/27/14 4:10 PM, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
 > >  Given that these are in use on Amazon EC2 instances, I'm going to work
 > >  around the problem in a similar fashion for now.
 > 
 > I just looked a little more closely at the existing workaround, and now I'm
 > not sure what the right thing to do is - should I set x86_xsave_features to
 > 0 for Xen in general?
 
 As it shows up on Intel CPUs too, I guess it's a reasonable
 woraround for now.
 
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