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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] hvm emul: fix cmpxchg emulation to use an atomic

To: "Patrick Colp (Intern)" <Patrick.Colp@xxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] hvm emul: fix cmpxchg emulation to use an atomic operation
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:23:53 +0100
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On 06/08/2009 11:55, "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Overall, I'm not super-fussed to touch this at all, and certainly not unless
> code can be shared and fallback paths implemented.

Actually, talking of code sharing, could we unify the HVM shadow emulation
path with hvm/emulate.c? I've thought about looking into that before but
never got round to it. I'm not sure how nicely it would work out. It's not a
prereq for your patch.

 -- Keir



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