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From: Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/9] xen: Optimize introspection access
 to guest state
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:23:23 +0300
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On 07/10/2014 11:17 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Your proposed change would make the results of vmx_guest_x86_mode() part
> of the Xen ABI, and therefore hard to refactor in the future if the need
> were to arise.
> 
> Also, it ties any SVM extension of your work to VT-x internals.

I see. Yes, that makes sense. I'll take guest_x86_mode out.


Thanks,
Razvan Cojocaru