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Re: [Xen-devel] omission in x86-64's entry-xen.S ?

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, <jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] omission in x86-64's entry-xen.S ?
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:38:34 +0100
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On 8/8/06 8:34 am, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> following sysret_signal there is a 'cli' left, but the hypervisor doesn't even
> emulate this anymore as equivalent of
> clearing evtchn_upcall_mask - I'm fairly certain XEN_BLOCK_EVENTS() is meant
> here, otherwise a comment should explain
> why this needs to keep the native instruction.

Any stupidities you see in x86/64 entry-xen.S almost certainly really are
bugs. Please send a patch!

 -- Keir



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