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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC, PATCH 5/24] i386 Vmi code patching
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Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC, PATCH 5/24] i386 Vmi code patching |
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Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:01:28 -0800 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>, Joshua LeVasseur <jtl@xxxxxxxxxx>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@xxxxxxxxxx>, Wim Coekaerts <wim.coekaerts@xxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxx>, Jack Lo <jlo@xxxxxxxxxx>, Dan Hecht <dhecht@xxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, Christopher Li <chrisl@xxxxxxxxxx>, Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>, Anne Holler <anne@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jyothy Reddy <jreddy@xxxxxxxxxx>, Kip Macy <kmacy@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx>, Leendert van Doorn <leendert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dan Arai <arai@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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Chris Wright wrote:
* Zachary Amsden (zach@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
+static void fixup_translation(struct vmi_annotation *a)
+{
+ unsigned char *c, *start, *end;
+ int left;
+
+ memcpy(a->nativeEIP, a->translationEIP, a->translation_size);
+ start = a->nativeEIP;
+ end = a->nativeEIP + a->translation_size;
+
+ for (c = start; c < end;) {
+ switch(*c) {
+ case MNEM_CALL_NEAR:
Why these restrictions? How do you do int $0x82, for example?
We don't. This is the minimal set of instructions that are emitted
during the annotation. The instruction sequence is only sufficient to
call out to the hypervisor ROM.
What we want to do next is to allow the hypervisor itself to do this
code fixup - in effect, relinking in the local translations, which in
many cases would then convert to int $0x82 for inline Xen calls.
Zach
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