Hello all,

Here's a new version of the paravirt_ops x86_64 patch. With this
message, I'm sending an incremental patch. The complete patches can be
found , from now on, at  http://et.redhat.com/~gcosta/paravirt_ops/

The main aim of this new update, is to fix a critical bug, namely,
Rusty's name. However, I took the opportunity to write some new less
important pieces of code, highlighting:

* proper casts in places in which macros were replaced by functions, and
the arguments happened to mismatch types.
* calling paravirt_ops functions from .S files (I lacked this last time)
* addition of the startup_paravirt function, to kick off guests (not
tested) 
* fixed problems with patching
* added a new field, vsyscall_page in the paravirt_ops struct, which
allows the kernel to map a vsyscall_page on its own
* fixed vsyscall functions to avoid calling paravirt_ops functions.
__vsyscall_0 is the page to be mapped for the host. (set and get cpu not
yet tested.)
* fixed cpuid calls. 
* added substitute for the swapgs instruction. (Notice that I'm not
saying it works ;-) )

In my TODO list, you can find: 
* putting swapgs to work
* making sure legacy mode binaries work 
* merging in valuable commentaries from all you ;-)

-- 
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
Red Hat Inc.
"Free as in Freedom"