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

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On Nov 1, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:

> 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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> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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