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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2007-07-26 10:41:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-26 11:35:17 -0700 |
| commit | f56a384e98aa81065038c4e16f39ed989ccae687 (patch) | |
| tree | 923bcaabd76a88351fe5e61370143350747a90c4 /drivers/lguest/lguest_asm.S | |
| parent | f8f0fdcd40449d318f8dc30c1b361b0b7f54134a (diff) | |
lguest: documentation VII: FIXMEs
Documentation: The FIXMEs
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lguest/lguest_asm.S')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/lguest/lguest_asm.S | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/lguest_asm.S b/drivers/lguest/lguest_asm.S index 3126ae923cc..f182c6a3620 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/lguest_asm.S +++ b/drivers/lguest/lguest_asm.S @@ -39,6 +39,20 @@ LGUEST_PATCH(pushf, movl lguest_data+LGUEST_DATA_irq_enabled, %eax) .global lguest_noirq_start .global lguest_noirq_end +/*M:004 When the Host reflects a trap or injects an interrupt into the Guest, + * it sets the eflags interrupt bit on the stack based on + * lguest_data.irq_enabled, so the Guest iret logic does the right thing when + * restoring it. However, when the Host sets the Guest up for direct traps, + * such as system calls, the processor is the one to push eflags onto the + * stack, and the interrupt bit will be 1 (in reality, interrupts are always + * enabled in the Guest). + * + * This turns out to be harmless: the only trap which should happen under Linux + * with interrupts disabled is Page Fault (due to our lazy mapping of vmalloc + * regions), which has to be reflected through the Host anyway. If another + * trap *does* go off when interrupts are disabled, the Guest will panic, and + * we'll never get to this iret! :*/ + /*G:045 There is one final paravirt_op that the Guest implements, and glancing * at it you can see why I left it to last. It's *cool*! It's in *assembler*! * |