-- On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > This has to match the normal C calling convention though, doesn't it? > > Native cli/sti/save/restore_flags are all only assembly and can be easily > (in fact more easily than in C) written as pure assembler functions. Then > you can use whatever calling convention you want. I agree. Should we make a paravirt_ops_asm.S file that can implement these native funcions, and so we can get rid of the C functions only doing asm? > > While some paravirt implementations may have more complicated implementations > i guess it's still a reasonable requirement to make them simple enough > in pure assembler. If not they can use a trampoline, but that's hopefully > not needed. It works for lguest64. I'm sure it should be no problem with other HVs. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
