Anthony Liguori wrote:
> This patch refactors the current hypercall infrastructure to better support live
> migration and SMP. It eliminates the hypercall page by trapping the UD
> exception that would occur if you used the wrong hypercall instruction for the
> underlying architecture and replacing it with the right one lazily.
>
I guess it would be pretty rude/unlikely for these opcodes to get reused
in other implementations... But couldn't you make the page trap
instead, rather than relying on an instruction fault?
> It also introduces the infrastructure to probe for hypercall available via
> CPUID leaves 0x40000002. CPUID leaf 0x40000003 should be filled out by
> userspace.
>
Is this compatible with Xen's (and other's) use of cpuid? That is,
0x40000000 returns a hypervisor-specific signature in e[bcd]x, and eax
has the max hypervisor leaf.
J
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