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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, riel@surriel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_emulate: Use DstReg when emulating xchg instructions
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:10:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4855E7C8.6020406@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52d4a3890806150937g272f8848ydfa5711ddaf7a985@mail.gmail.com>

Mohammed Gamal wrote:
> As per Avi's recommendation, this patch uses DstReg to autodecode destination
> registers when emulating xchg instructions
>
>   

Applied, thanks.  I had to fix some coding style errors, please read 
Documentation/CodingStyle (or just follow the style in the surrounding 
code).

> +	case 0x91 ... 0x97: /* xchg reg,rax */
> +		c->src.type = c->dst.type = OP_REG;
> +		c->src.bytes = c->dst.bytes = c->op_bytes;
> +		c->src.ptr = (unsigned long *) &c->regs[VCPU_REGS_RAX];
> +		c->src.val = *(c->src.ptr);
> +		goto xchg;		
>   

How about SrcAcc and DstAcc so this code doesn't have to be repeated?  
There are many potential use cases.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-16  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-15 16:37 [PATCH] x86_emulate: Use DstReg when emulating xchg instructions Mohammed Gamal
2008-06-16  4:10 ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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