From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753562AbZKHNJL (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:09:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751951AbZKHNJK (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:09:10 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15595 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237AbZKHNJJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:09:09 -0500 Message-ID: <4AF6C2E7.8040107@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:08:55 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091014 Fedora/3.0-2.8.b4.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Gleb Natapov , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Fr??d??ric Weisbecker Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] Add "handle page fault" PV helper. References: <20091102092214.GB8933@elte.hu> <20091102160410.GF27911@redhat.com> <20091102161248.GB15423@elte.hu> <20091102162234.GH27911@redhat.com> <20091102162941.GC14544@elte.hu> <20091102174208.GJ27911@redhat.com> <20091108113654.GO11372@elte.hu> <4AF6BCE5.3030701@redhat.com> <20091108125135.GA13099@elte.hu> <4AF6C112.4010601@redhat.com> <20091108130521.GA29728@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20091108130521.GA29728@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/08/2009 03:05 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> We can take the "immediate values" infrastructure as a first step. Has >> that been merged? >> > No, there were doubts about whether patching in live instructions like > that is safe on all CPU types. > Ah, I remember. Doesn't the trick of going through a breakpoint instruction work? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function