From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] tcg-i386: Use %gs prefixes for x86_64 GUEST_BASE
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:43:10 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50845E5E.2080208@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121021042602.GA15193@ohm.aurel32.net>
On 2012-10-21 14:26, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> > +static inline void setup_guest_base_seg(void)
>> > +{
>> > + if (syscall(__NR_arch_prctl, ARCH_SET_GS, GUEST_BASE) == 0) {
>> > + guest_base_flags = P_GS;
>> > + }
> Why calling the syscall directly instead of using arch_prctl(2)?
>
Err... there is no such function in libc. Ah, I see there is a prctl
declaration and a <sys/prctl.h> now. I can definitely update that.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-21 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-18 3:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tcg-i386: Use %gs prefixes for x86_64 GUEST_BASE Richard Henderson
2012-10-18 3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] " Richard Henderson
2012-10-21 4:26 ` Aurelien Jarno
2012-10-21 6:24 ` Richard Henderson
2012-10-21 20:43 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
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2012-10-22 2:11 Richard Henderson
2012-10-22 5:59 ` Aurelien Jarno
2012-10-22 21:19 ` Richard Henderson
2012-10-29 14:34 ` Aurelien Jarno
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