From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: unbreak userspace that does not sets tss address
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:49:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D74FE88.9060708@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110307151936.GA10151@redhat.com>
On 2011-03-07 16:19, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Commit 6440e5967bc broke old userspaces that do not set tss address
> before entering vcpu. Unbreak it by setting tss address to a safe
> value on the first vcpu entry. New userspaces should set tss address,
> so print warning in case it doesn't.
Wouldn't allow runtime warnings but wouldn't it be cleaner otherwise to
start vcpus with a default tss address like that, ie. add the logic to
vmx_create_vcpu?
Jan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-07 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-07 15:19 [PATCH] KVM: unbreak userspace that does not sets tss address Gleb Natapov
2011-03-07 15:49 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2011-03-07 16:20 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-03-07 16:23 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-07 16:26 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-03-11 17:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-03-11 18:22 ` Gleb Natapov
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