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Re: [Xen-devel] arch_set_info_guest() producing inconsistent state on x8

To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] arch_set_info_guest() producing inconsistent state on x86?
From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:59:14 +0100
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On 29/03/2011 09:01, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The question is whether it must be considered legal to issue
> XEN_DOMCTL_setvcpucontext on an already initialized vCPU
> in the first place.

It's probably used by debuggers running in dom0? Also see
modify_returncode() in libxc/xc_resume.c -- so it's used on suspend resume
in the failure case.

I doubt anything other than GPRs are ever modified after first
initialisation.

 -- Keir



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