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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux: 6 arguments hypercall v3
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:43:18 -0700
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To: Jean Guyader <jean.guyader@eu.citrix.com>
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On 06/24/2011 03:15 PM, Jean Guyader wrote:
> I only tested it gcc 4.4.
>
> We could still use the v2 which is not as nice, but it doesn't try to
> load eax twice. Let me know which one you will feel better about.

I feel best about the one you've successfully tested with a number of
older compilers ;)

>> What hypercalls have 6 args?
>>
> I'm planning on upstream v4v which is a inter vm memory transport
> based on hypervisor memcpy. The send hypercall takes 6 arguments.

Does it have to?  Couldn't it take a pointer to a struct or something?

    J