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Re: [Xen-devel] Question re do_switch_stack()




On 9 Jun 2005, at 16:22, Avi Kivity wrote:

the tss is not consulted on iretd as far as I can tell, and kernel_sp is
only loaded in create_bounce_frame. what did I miss?

thanks in advance.

The actual stack switch occurs in do_switch() macro defined in include/asm-xen/asm-i386/system.h.

do_stack_switch() changes the stack that Xen switches to when switching to ring 1 when previously the guest was executing in ring 3.

 -- Keir


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