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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: "Yang, Sheng" <sheng.yang@intel.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>,
	glommer@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mask out clflush
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:20:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48761A97.7010500@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4876185B.9030609@qumranet.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> It's equivalent to a read from a VT perspective so if the read would 
>> trap, the clflush instruction will trap.
>>
>
> Reads don't normally go through the emulator.  Is the guest 
> clflush()ing mmio addresses?  Strange as these are not normally cached.

It seems so, Glauber mentioned that the address was an MMIO address.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-10 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-08 18:29 [PATCH] mask out clflush Glauber Costa
2008-07-08 19:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-08 20:01   ` Glauber Costa
2008-07-10 10:43 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-07-10 13:30   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-10 13:34     ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-10 13:37       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-10 14:10         ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-10 14:20           ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-07-10 14:45             ` Glauber Costa
2008-07-10 14:47               ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-10 15:37                 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-10 15:39                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-10 20:18                     ` Glauber Costa
2008-07-13  7:58                       ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-10 14:16 ` Avi Kivity

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