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From: Steve Ofsthun <sofsthun@virtualiron.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Hypercalls from HVM guests (1/2)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:25:09 -0400
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Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
> On 12 Apr 2006, at 19:40, Steve Ofsthun wrote:
> 
>> Here is the main hypervisor/hvmloader patch.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Steve Ofsthun <sofsthun@virtualiron.com>
> 
> All in-memory hypercall arguments are now accessed via 
> copy_to/from_guest and copy_to/from_user are no longer used for that 
> purpose at all. That given, can the special path for HVM guests be made 
> in copy_to/from_guest (no need to make conditional on hypervisor_va()) 
> and not touch copy_to/from_user?

Yes, that sounds right.  I'll put together an updated patch.

Thanks,
Steve
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Steve Ofsthun - Virtual Iron Software, Inc.