Re: [PATCH 1/14] i386 / Make write ldt return error code

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Aug 16 2005 - 18:43:50 EST


On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:52:51PM -0700, zach@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Xen requires error returns from the hypercall to update LDT entries,
> and this generates completely equivalent code on native.

I don't think that is something we want. Nothing in the callers will check
the errors anyways. If Xen has such a requirement it should kill
the guest when it is violated, otherwise they will be ignored.

I would drop that one.

-Andi
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