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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: issues with movnti emulation

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: issues with movnti emulation
From: Gianluca Guida <gianluca.guida@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:18:44 +0100
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Tim Deegan wrote:
At 17:43 +0000 on 20 Nov (1227202988), Keir Fraser wrote:
Yes, you're probably right. I wonder if we are relying on emulation failures
to inform unshadowing at all often? We might have to revisit constraining
x86_emulate() when called by shadow code, do you think?

Yes, I think it would probably be worth looking at that.

In what kind of guest/workloads we were experiencing this corruption?

Thanks,
Gianluca

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