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From: Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] xen/vm_event: Added support for XSETBV
 events
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 09:18:13 +0300
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On 05/07/2015 09:03 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> In an effort to be architecture neutral, it might be an idea to have
> something like
> 
> struct vm_event_write_cr {
>     uint64_t index;
>     uint64_t old_val, new_val;
> };
> 
> And have a per-arch index of control registers, such as
> 
> X86_CR0
> X86_CR3
> X86_CR4
> X86_XCR0
> ...
> ARM32_$foo
> 
> (See also my reply to Tim on this thread)

Sure, if everyone thinks this is the way forward, I can submit a patch
for that as well (would you prefer it within, or outside the series?).


Thanks,
Razvan