From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Razvan Cojocaru Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V3 1/5] xen: Emulate with no writes Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:36:17 +0300 Message-ID: <53D0FDC1.508@bitdefender.com> References: <1406118884-16628-1-git-send-email-rcojocaru@bitdefender.com> <21456.64752.48720.321390@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <21456.64752.48720.321390@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: kevin.tian@intel.com, Ian.Campbell@citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, jun.nakajima@intel.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, eddie.dong@intel.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org, andres@lagarcavilla.org, JBeulich@suse.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 07/24/2014 03:32 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Razvan Cojocaru writes ("[PATCH RFC V3 1/5] xen: Emulate with no writes"): >> Added support for emulating an instruction with no memory writes. >> Additionally, introduced hvm_emulate_one_full(), which inspects >> possible return values from the hvm_emulate_one() functions >> (EXCEPTION, UNHANDLEABLE) and acts on them. > > Can you explain the motivation for this series ? (You've CC'd me on > 1-5 but if there is a 0/5 I haven't seen it.) 0/5 is here: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-07/msg00304.html But I think the initial description explains things better: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-07/msg00304.html Thanks, Razvan Cojocaru