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[Xen-ia64-devel] Question about paravirtualization

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To:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>
Subject:	[Xen-ia64-devel] Question about paravirtualization
From:	Haavard Bjerke <havard.bjerke@xxxxxxx>
Date:	Sat, 4 Jun 2005 22:14:32 +0200
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I'm looking the Xenlinux paravirtualization, just for the sake of studies, and 
a few questions came to mind.

In ivt.S, the "thash" instructions are replaced with "tak" instructions. I 
understand the need for paravirtualizing thash instructions, but not in 
Xenlinux' IVT. Will Xenlinux' fault handlers ever be executed? Won't the 
hypervisor's IVT be used instead? Are these instructions paravirtualized just 
in case?

And is the choice of the "tak" instruction just so that a privop fault will be 
rised, or does it have a function?

Thanks,
Haavard

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