Re: [PATCH 07/20] KVM/MIPS32: Dynamic binary translation of select privileged instructions.

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On 10/31/2012 05:19 PM, Sanjay Lal wrote:
> Currently, the following instructions are translated:
> - CACHE (indexed)
> - CACHE (va based): translated to a synci, overkill on D-CACHE operations, but still much faster than a trap.
> - mfc0/mtc0: the virtual COP0 registers for the guest are implemented as 2-D array
>   [COP#][SEL] and this is mapped into the guest kernel address space @ VA 0x0.
>   mfc0/mtc0 operations are transformed to load/stores.
> 

Seems to be more of binary patching, yes?  Binary translation usually
involves hiding the translated code so the guest is not able to detect
that it is patched.


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