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* Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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