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From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
To: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@amd.com>
Cc: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Questioning the Xen Design of the VMM
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:22:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D8D661.2060505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <907625E08839C4409CE5768403633E0BA7FE10@sefsexmb1.amd.com>

Mat, thanks for the reply

Petersson, Mats wrote:
> 
> 
> Hidden parts of segment registers is one of the "security features" of
> the 286 architecture, but it also creates some pretty interesting
> scenarios for us programmers... 

The missing part in my mind was that I didn't know that the segment 
registers can't be completely read.  A colleague of mine told me a 
little more about them.  Yuck!

Thanks for the nice write ups though.

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-08 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-07 15:01 Questioning the Xen Design of the VMM Al Boldi
2006-08-08  9:10 ` Keir Fraser
2006-08-08  9:17 ` Harry Butterworth
2006-08-08  9:20 ` Petersson, Mats
2006-08-08 14:10   ` Al Boldi
2006-08-08 15:07     ` Petersson, Mats
2006-08-08 16:39       ` Steven Rostedt
2006-08-08 17:14         ` Petersson, Mats
2006-08-08 18:22           ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2006-08-09 12:53       ` Al Boldi
2006-08-09 13:28         ` Petersson, Mats
2006-08-10 14:55           ` Al Boldi
2006-08-10 15:42             ` Petersson, Mats
2006-08-10 11:20         ` Daniel Stodden
2006-08-09 12:49     ` Daniel Stodden
2006-08-10 14:57       ` Al Boldi
2006-08-10 15:53         ` Daniel Stodden
2006-08-10 16:34           ` Petersson, Mats
2006-08-10 18:07             ` Daniel Stodden
2006-08-11  8:41               ` Petersson, Mats

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