From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Gerrit Huizenga <gh@us.ibm.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-changelog] Indirect hypercalls through a hypercall transfer page.
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:37:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43EA1028.203@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79c457384536c20ab5b2bb2ce6238895@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Keir Fraser wrote:
> Allows a different hypercall implementation on platforms where that
> makes sense. For example, we would like to run XenLinux on native by
> running it over a small 'Xen shim' that provides the Xen API but no
> protection or multiplexing. In that case it would be most efficient to
> turn syscall instructions into jumps.
Is someone working on this?
I had been thinking of something like this myself. A pretty
straight-forward kernel module that could allow you to run XenLinux on
native (so we could have our own "player").
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> -- Keir
>
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2006-02-08 4:57 ` [Xen-changelog] Indirect hypercalls through a hypercall transfer page Hollis Blanchard
2006-02-08 8:46 ` Keir Fraser
2006-02-08 15:37 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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