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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] Implement emulator_write_phys()
FromAnthony Liguori <>
DateMon, 27 Aug 2007 13:09:42 -0500
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:45 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Since a hypercall may span two pages and is a gva, we need a function to write
> > to a gva that may span multiple pages.  emulator_write_phys() seems like the
> > logical choice for this.
> >
> > @@ -962,8 +962,35 @@ static int emulator_write_std(unsigned long addr,
> >  			      unsigned int bytes,
> >  			      struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu
> 
> I think that emulator_write_emulated(), except for being awkwardly 
> named, should do the job.  We have enough APIs.

I'll drop this patch.  My mistakenly thought emulator_write_emulated()
took a GPA.  Thanks!

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> But!  We may not overwrite the hypercall instruction while a vcpu may be 
> executing, since there's no atomicity guarantee for code fetch.  We have 
> to to be out of guest mode while writing that insn.
> 

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