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authorAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>2007-09-17 19:57:50 (GMT)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>2008-01-30 15:52:46 (GMT)
commit7aa81cc04781b5b99a0647ec04533599d78cd219 (patch)
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KVM: Refactor hypercall infrastructure (v3)
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. A fall-out of this patch is that the unhandled hypercalls no longer trap to userspace. There is very little reason though to use a hypercall to communicate with userspace as PIO or MMIO can be used. There is no code in tree that uses userspace hypercalls. [avi: fix #ud injection on vmx] Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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