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authorJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>2013-02-13 12:43:10 +0100
committerMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2013-04-17 23:27:23 -0300
commitf505a4d74aae6fc8bb5502a6038b5f671aa97713 (patch)
tree7ccf4099316ff7012247fceb496897cb45122676 /scripts/kvm
parent1773d9ee6e7138e3956081670215e8bc0ae14828 (diff)
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vmxcap: Open MSR file in unbuffered mode
Python may otherwise decide to to read larger chunks, applying the seek
only on the software buffer. This will return results from the wrong
MSRs.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/kvm')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/kvm/vmxcap4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kvm/vmxcap b/scripts/kvm/vmxcap
index 0b23f7795a..6363e7368f 100755
--- a/scripts/kvm/vmxcap
+++ b/scripts/kvm/vmxcap
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ MSR_IA32_VMX_VMFUNC = 0x491
 class msr(object):
     def __init__(self):
         try:
-            self.f = file('/dev/cpu/0/msr')
+            self.f = open('/dev/cpu/0/msr', 'r', 0)
         except:
-            self.f = file('/dev/msr0')
+            self.f = open('/dev/msr0', 'r', 0)
     def read(self, index, default = None):
         import struct
         self.f.seek(index)