On 18 May 2006, at 21:20, Zachary Amsden wrote:
1. We clear FS/GS before changing TLS entries and switching LDT, as
otherwise the hypervisor will fail to restore thread-local values on
return to the guest kernel and we take a slow exception path.
@@ -647,6 +647,8 @@ struct task_struct fastcall * __switch_t
*/
savesegment(fs, prev->fs);
savesegment(gs, prev->gs);
+ clearsegment(fs);
+ clearsegment(gs);
Really not needed. Think about it. You can even speed up Xen. I'm
glad the native operation here is a nop, but it should be
hypervisor_clearsegment or xen_clearsegment if you really want to keep
it.
Maybe you could explain in more detail? It's not needed for
correctness, but it is faster for us to clear at that point.
-- Keir
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