Re: [Xen-devel] portability issues

[Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/6/07 11:16, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> I don't see the problem. The guest will not be able to initialise secondary
>> VCPU's sysenter/syscall state via this interface. So what?
> 
> For (1), the guest will supply a too short guest_context structure, and
> currently Xen has no way of detecting this. I was proposing two possible
> solutions, neither of which seemed ideal to me.
> 
> For (2), I am just not certain whether there isn't an alternative not breaking
> the interface for pure 32-bits.

I'm proposing we do not change the guest_context structure at all. Instead
the tools will get at this extra state via a generalised form of the current
hvm save/restore interface. The guest itself will always have to set the
callback via the callback_op hypercall.

 -- Keir


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