From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deal with interrupt shadow state for emulated instruction
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:07:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E4B4D4.1020903@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E45894.7090700@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> The comment about repeating 'mov ss' in the manual has that wonderful
> word in it, May. That means we're perfectly allowed to ignore it and
> just set the flag unconditionally.
>
Realistically, though, this should only be done for a limited number of
sequential instructions.
> I doubt we'll ever see a repeated 'mov ss', once is more than enough.
True enough, except maliciously.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-14 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-13 20:06 [PATCH] deal with interrupt shadow state for emulated instruction Glauber Costa
2009-04-14 9:07 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-04-14 9:34 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 16:07 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-04-14 16:14 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 16:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-16 9:18 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-16 22:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-19 8:26 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 17:31 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-14 17:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-05 18:40 Glauber Costa
2009-05-06 8:03 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-05-06 10:51 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-08 5:25 ` Glauber Costa
2009-05-08 7:18 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-05-08 13:02 ` Glauber Costa
2009-04-28 14:30 Glauber Costa
2009-04-30 11:50 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-05 13:57 ` Glauber Costa
2009-04-08 21:42 Glauber Costa
2009-04-11 16:37 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-11 21:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
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