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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] emulator: Fix task switch into/out of VM86
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:37:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F14443D.10306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120110175159.GF7166@amd.com>

Am 10.01.2012 18:51, schrieb Joerg Roedel:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 01:30:47PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:25:18PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>> Did that now, and it looks like exit_int_info is always 0 during the
>>> task switch intercept for a task gate in the IDT. So special-casing VM86
>>> won't help, I'm afraid.
>>>
>> Joerg, do you know how can we check that task switch was cause by an
>> exception triggering task gate if exit_int_info is not provided during
>> intercept (short of decoding instruction that caused intercept to see if
>> it's a call to a gate, which is racy) ?
> 
> Hmm, havn't found a solution yet. But I will check further and let you
> know if I find out something.

Jörg, any news on this?

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-16 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-09 20:10 [RFC PATCH] emulator: Fix task switch into/out of VM86 Kevin Wolf
2012-01-10  3:08 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-01-10  4:07 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-01-10  9:01 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-10  9:28   ` Kevin Wolf
2012-01-10 10:17     ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-10 11:25     ` Kevin Wolf
2012-01-10 11:30       ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-10 17:51         ` Joerg Roedel
2012-01-16 15:37           ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2012-01-16 15:57             ` Joerg Roedel

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