Re: [PATCH 0/4] Real mode interrupt injection emulation

Avi Kivity
2010-09-19T15:25:07Z

On 09/19/2010 02:34 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Our current real mode interrupt injection injects external interrupts as
> software interrupts, which is somewhat hacky. This is problematic in big
> real mode (can't use vmx there) and on via processors (a cpu bug prevents
> this from working correctly).
>
> Replace the current mechanism with emulation; we now inject the interrupt
> by looking up the vector in the IVT, updating the stack, etc. using the
> emulator. This is somewhat slower but works in all cases.
>
>

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