Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 18/35] Support gdt/idt/ldt handling on Xen. | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:36:23 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 22 March 2006 18:51, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> > Yes, trapping works fine. Even LLDT is infrequent.
Not when you use old style LinuxThreads which use the LDT for TLS.
> No. First, you have to create a special #GP handler for the general > protection fault.
[... etc ...]
Sure but Xen already has the infrastructure for all of this and last time I checked it was approaching and exceeding the size of the main core kernel so a bit more of instruction emulation probably wouldn't do too much harm.
In general I think any x86 hypervisor that attempts to work on current platforms needs instruction emulation because it is the only way to virtualize IO devices.
If this was supposed to be a interface for lots of hypervisors then maybe, but so far it seems to only cover Xen and possibly some other bloatware ones.
That said I don't feel very strongly about emulating these instructions or not as long as they can do that without too much code duplication. The current patch are still a bit too excessive on the duplication front.
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