Re: 2.6.{26.2,27-rc} oops on virtualbox

[H. Peter Anvin]

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> x86 alternative text_poke add wbinvd
>
> Add a cache flush instruction before reenabling interrupts in text_poke.
>
> If this works, we could use clflush() (which is sadly buggy on some archs) which
> is faster since it only clear a cacheline instead of the entire cache.

Well, in this case it's VirtualBox we're talking about, a virtual 
architecture.  It's hard to know what it will do under *any* circumstances.

	-hpa
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