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From: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [HYBRID]: XEN_EMULATE_PREFIX in user process
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:18:18 -0700
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On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:27:47 +0100
"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:

> >>> On 30.06.12 at 00:50, Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com>
> >>> wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:04:14 -0700 (PDT)
> > Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 20:07 +0100, Mukesh Rathor wrote:
> >> 
> >> I don't think reducing code should come at the expense of adding
> >> special cases for hybrid to userspace programs...
> >> 
> >> I think you'll have to handle the invalid op, it can't be that much
> >> code, can it?
> > 
> > Not a whole lot of code, but other than xen-detect, just curious,
> > what is the possibility of any user level using XEN_EMULATE_PREFIX
> > cpuid?
> 
> Obviously any code cloned from xen-detect could, i.e. anything
> that tries to be Xen-PV-aware.
> 
> Jan
> 

Ok, so it is official to do that from user level. I will add support
for it.

thanks,
Mukesh