On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:26:06 +0100 Kevin Wolf <kwolf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The other case is what we're looking at, task switch. To actually > > update cpl, set_segment() needs to look at cr0.pe and eflags, but these > > might not have been committed yet. It's all solvable but the solution > > involves knowing exactly what kvm and the emulator depend on, which > > makes it very fragile. I think giving the emulator less complicated > > primitives will make it more readable. > > I think the main problem here is that you have two sets of registers, > one in the vcpu struct and one in the emulator context. > I think we can, partly?, eliminate the usage of the latter by moving the register initialization to the decode/emulation stage, as once talked on kvm ml, and changing the writeback code to use callbacks. But still some refactoring is needed before that. Takuya -- 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
