Thanks for your quick response,
Yes we'll revisit the vcpu_regs if there are any issue.
Thanks,
Anthony
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) [mailto:dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx]
>Sent: 2005年9月20日 1:11
>To: Xu, Anthony
>Cc: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] This is the second patch to merge vcpu.c
>
>Tested and committed. I am concerned about the vcpu_regs
>issue but we can watch for data corruption and revisit
>the vcpu_regs change if we see any.
>
>Dan
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Xu, Anthony [mailto:anthony.xu@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 5:55 AM
>> To: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)
>> Cc: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] This is the second patch to
>> merge vcpu.c
>>
>> Dan,
>>
>> Thanks, Dan, I have noticed that the first patch for merging
>> vcpu.c had been cheked in.
>> This patch is based on ver.6866, and has gone through your
>> stress-test.
>>
>> Following things are done in this patch.
>> 1. Add r4,r5,r6,r7,eml_unat,rfi_pfs six members at the end of
>> pt_regs,
>> thus VMM for non-VT domain doesn't need to save/restore
>> SWITCH_STACK
>> just in case VMM may need modify guest r4,r5,r6,r7 value,
>> eml_unat is saved
>> in case VMM may need modify guest unat, rfi_pfs is used to
>> emulate guest rfi
>> instruction for VT domain, and is used as dummy member for
>> alignment of F6,
>> F7 etc. in pt_regs for non-VT domain. And add code to
>> save/restore r4,r5,r6,
>> r7,eml_unat in minstate.h and entry.s for non-VT domain.
>> and remove code to
>> save/restore SWITCH_STACK in ivt.S for non-VT domain.
>> 2. Originally guest banked registers of VT domain are saved
>> directly in VPD. Now
>> Guest banked registers of VT domain are saved to pt_regs
>> at the entry of VMM,
>> just for consistence with non-VT domain, vmx_vcpu_bsw0 and
>> vmx_vcpu_bsw1 are
>> rewriten for accomodating this change.
>> 3. After above changes, all guest registers and nat bits are
>> saved at same place
>> both for VTI domain and for non-VTI domain, so vcpu_get/set_gr and
>> rse_get/set_gr are merged, and all these functions can
>> handle guest nats.
>> 4. Merged vcpu_bsw0 and vcpu_bsw1, Now VMM uses
>> vgr[16],vbgr[16],vnat,vbnat in
>> mapped_regs_t struct (is also vpd) to emuate guest banking
>> switch operation.
>> 5. Removed some CONFIG_VTIs and cleaned up some unused
>> structure members and codes.
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by Anthony Xu <Anthony.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anthony
>>
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