Zachary Amsden wrote: > On 02/16/2010 02:39 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:45:42AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> >>> The interrupt shadow created by STI or MOV-SS-like operations is part of >>> the VCPU state and must be preserved across migration. Transfer it in >>> the spare padding field of kvm_vcpu_events.interrupt. > > STI and MOV-SS interrupt shadow are both treated differently by > hardware. Any attempt to unify them into a single field is wrong, > especially so in a hardware virtualization context, where they are > actually represented by different fields in the undocumented but > nevertheless extant format that can be inferred from the hardware > virtualization context used by specific vendors. Someone should ask AMD why they thought differently about this while designing SVM... Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- 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
