* Zachary Amsden (zach@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Descriptor and trap table cleanups. Add cleanly written accessors for > IDT and GDT gates so the subarch may override them. Note that this > allows the hypervisor to transparently tweak the DPL of the descriptors > as well as the RPL of segments in those descriptors, with no unnecessary > kernel code modification. It also allows the hypervisor implementation > of the VMI to tweak the gates, allowing for custom exception frames or > extra layers of indirection above the guest fault / IRQ handlers. Nice cleanups, VMI or not. thanks, -chris
