Hypercall

Hypercall

[Carlo Bertoldi]

Hi,
  I'd like to do some operation every time an hypercall is issued in a 
domU kernel. I started modifying 
include/asm-i386/mach-xen/asm/hypercall.h but I don't think it's such a 
great idea, so I think that, as a last chance, I'll have to substitute 
all of the hypercall function call with some wrapper function of my own.
Can anyone tell me if there's a cleaner approach?
Thank you,
  Carlo
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Re: Hypercall

[Daniel Stodden]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 10:44 +0200, Carlo Bertoldi wrote:
> Hi,
>   I'd like to do some operation every time an hypercall is issued in a 
> domU kernel. I started modifying 
> include/asm-i386/mach-xen/asm/hypercall.h but I don't think it's such a 
> great idea, so I think that, as a last chance, I'll have to substitute 
> all of the hypercall function call with some wrapper function of my own.
> Can anyone tell me if there's a cleaner approach?

It'll take some assembly. All hypercalls enter the VMM through the same
trap handler in arch//entry.S (e.g. syscall_enter on x86_64). A good
point to catch these entries would be somewhere shortly after the
SAVE_ALL macro. Note that you'll have to carefully restore register
arguments clobbered after return [depending on individual calling
conventions]. Mail me if you get stuck with that.

kind regards,
Daniel

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Hypercall

[john bryant]

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I need to implement Hypercall in Xen. Is there any pointers to start with.

-John

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