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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm
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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:39:58 +0300
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On 09/01/2009 04:31 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> The hardware will clear dr7 on exit.
>>      
> Given this fact, I wonder why you want to reload host dr0..3 on
> vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs. if (unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_DEBUG)))
> should suffice then, right?
>    

I think you're right.  It would mean unsynced hardware and software 
registers, but only if debugging is disabled, which should be fine.

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