On Monday 04 June 2007 23:28, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> The cli/sti instructions don't control the event mask, so they're
> effectively expensive no-ops (they trap into the hypervisor, are
> emulated as no-ops). But if you mean cli as a general term for
> "events/interrupts masked", then they can't remain masked when you
> return to usermode. iret normally sets the current eflags IF state
> from the on-stack IF, but that's irrelevent to Xen; we need to extract
> eflags.IF from the on-stack eflags, and put that into the vcpu's event
> mask. That's inherently non-atomic with respect to iret.
Ah I assumed the hypervisor would just check IF in ring 1 too.
It would certainly make this easier, but then the additional trap
of setting it would be also somewhat expensive agreed.
I must say I still hate the patch; it has all the signs of something that
will be very nasty to maintain later.
-Andi
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