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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 21/34] core: virtualise CPU interfaces
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Cc: edgar.iglesias@gmail.com, Peter Crosthwaite <crosthwaite.peter@gmail.com>, pbonzini@redhat.com, afaerber@suse.de, peter.maydell@linaro.org

On 05/30/2015 11:11 PM, Peter Crosthwaite wrote:
> The tcg_ctx global is tricky. It needs to become part of the cpu state.
> This is done via a pointer.

Why does it need to be virtualized?  We already have one for each arch-obj-y.
Is it really accessed from outside arch-obj-y?


r~