Re: [PATCH v3 04/12] Add "handle page fault" PV helper.

[Avi Kivity]

On 01/20/2010 07:18 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 01/20/2010 07:00 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 01/20/2010 12:02 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > I can inject the event as HW interrupt on vector greater then 32 but 
> > > not
> > > go through APIC so EOI will not be required. This sounds
> > > non-architectural
> > > and I am not sure kernel has entry point code for this kind of 
> > > event, it
> > > has one for exception and one for interrupts that goes through 
> > > __do_IRQ()
> > > which assumes that interrupts should be ACKed.
> >
> > Further, we start to interact with the TPR; Linux doesn't use the TPR or
> > cr8 but if it does one day we don't want it interfering with apf.
>
> That's not an issue is it?  The guest will tell the host what
> vector to use for pseudo page faults.

And kill 15 other vectors?

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