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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jun Koi <junkoi2004@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to monitoring segment registers?
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:29:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFEB0BC.202@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fdaac4d50911110819tba462e8j6d137e1027d933@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/11/2009 06:19 PM, Jun Koi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am doing some profiling for a guest VM on KVM. One of things I want
> to do is to monitor the activities of SS register.
>
> Specifically, I want to be notified whenever guest's SS changes its
> value (like when OS switches from userspace stack to kernel stack).
>
> I imagine that I need to reprogram VMCS, so I can get VMEXIT anytime
> SS changes its value.
> Is that feasible? If so, which code should I look at in kvm code?
>    

Virtualization extensions don't allow trapping on segment register 
changes.  I recommend modifying qemu/tcg instead.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-14 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-11 16:19 How to monitoring segment registers? Jun Koi
2009-11-14 13:29 ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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