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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@citrix.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/hvm: Allow the guest to permit the use of userspace hypercalls
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:50:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1452768659.2185.18.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452520774-16794-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 13:59 +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Arm folks: Is something like this sufficiently generic to be useful on
> Arm, perhaps with more generic naming?

ARM's HVC instruction is always invalid from userspace, i.e. it would
result in #UNDEF and there is no control bit to make it do otherwise, so I
think there isn't much point.

Ian.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-14 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-11 13:59 [PATCH] x86/hvm: Allow the guest to permit the use of userspace hypercalls Andrew Cooper
2016-01-11 14:32 ` Paul Durrant
2016-01-11 14:44 ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-11 17:17   ` Andrew Cooper
2016-01-11 18:26     ` David Vrabel
2016-01-11 18:32       ` Andrew Cooper
2016-01-11 18:40         ` David Vrabel
2016-01-11 18:50           ` Andrew Cooper
2016-01-12 12:07       ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-01-12 15:06         ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-12 17:05           ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-01-12 17:10             ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-12 17:23               ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-01-13  5:12                 ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-13 10:41                   ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-01-13 11:14                     ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-13 11:26                       ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-01-13 11:32                         ` Juergen Gross
2016-01-13 11:42         ` David Vrabel
2016-01-13 12:51           ` Stefano Stabellini
2016-01-12  7:33     ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-12 10:57       ` Andrew Cooper
2016-01-12 11:03         ` George Dunlap
2016-01-14 10:50 ` Ian Campbell [this message]

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