[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/9] S390x KVM support

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 10/22/2009 11:18 AM, Carsten Otte wrote:
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>> I'd also appreciate an explanation of what this is all about.
> The processor status word does contain various bits about the CPU's 
> state, such as interrupt mask bits, current address space, and the 
> current instruction address. The status is kept in the in-kernel sie 
> control block data structure and has so far only been mirrored into 
> kvm_run during exit_reason == s390_sieic exits because user space 
> needs to work on it. It was never part of get_regs/set_regs and 
> friends as performance optimization: it's needed on almost every exit, 
> having it in kvm_run saves doing syscalls.
> The gdb stub requires an up-to-date copy at every exit, and therefore 
> the patch moves it out of the union and updates it at all userland exits.

gdb is hardly performance critical.  Is that the only reason for the change?

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