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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: changing definition of paravirt_ops.iret
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 01:08:42 +0100
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Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Strongly nacked.  If you need %fs and a free register, just push / pop
> them yourself.  We use push / pop to get %eax free for IRET in the VMI
> ROM. 

Yeah, it doesn't interact nicely with either the error_code or the nmi
stack switch thing.

    J