Re: [PATCH 18/25] [PATCH] turn priviled operations into macros inentry.S

[Steven Rostedt]

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On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > Probably not, but this part of the code I don't fully understand.
> > >
> > > I would suggest to defer all this until at least one example to test it
> > > (except vsmp which is too simple) is around.
> >
> > Who uses that code? NMIs and debug regs?  Lguest only has the host handle
> > the NMIs (doesn't pass to guest). And we haven't gotten to debug regs. Who
> > else uses that part of the code?
>
> I'm not sure I understand your question. You're asking who uses entry.S?
> Answer would be everybody. If you asked something else please reformulate.

When I said "this part of the code I don't fully understand" I was not
talking about entry.S.  I understand entry.S very well, but the comment
was originally on the paranoid_restore code. Which I thought had to deal
with NMIs and such that I didn't worry about that I simply did the
default.

>>  paranoid_restore\trace:
>>       RESTORE_ALL 8
>> -     iretq
>> +     INTERRUPT_RETURN
>
>I suspect Xen will need much more changes anyways because of its
>ring 3 guest. Are these changes sufficient for lguest?


The above was what I was replying to.

-- Steve

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