On 12/15/2009 09:36 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 15.12.2009, at 06:29, Sheng Yang wrote:We don't support these instructions, but guest can execute them even if the feature('monitor') haven't been exposed in CPUID. So we would trap and inject a #UD if guest try this way.Wouldn't it be a lot better to emulate them? I actually have emulation of MONITOR/MWAIT on my todo list for some time, since OSX requires it. Basically what they do is they guarantee that a MONITOR'ed region is on a page boundary, so all we need to do is not map the monitor'ed page to wake up from the mwait.
You'll need to break up large page mappings for this. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
