Re: [Xen-devel] hypercall execution path?

[Daniel Stodden <stodden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 19:16 +0100, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 12:17 -0500, Bryan D. Payne wrote:
> > I'm trying to trace the execution path taken by the system when I make a 
> > hypercall from a domU kernel.  What I'm seeing in the hypercall entry 
> > function in Xen is that the domU eip value points to a location in the 
> > domU hypercall page for the __HYPERCALL_sched_op hypercall, even though 
> > this is *not* the hypercall that I just called.
> > 
> > Could someone help clarify this for me?  Why would the vcpu for the 
> > guest domain have this seemingly incorrect eip value?
> 
> hard to imagine :}
> 
> apart from emulating execution, the single place i'm aware of playing
> with eip are continuations.
> 
> so: what does it point at? what's the page address, which offset? 
> 
> after looking into traps.c: take good care with the layout: hypercall
> pages on x86_32 are 32 (!) bytes per entry (not 8 as the loop body might
> suggest). are your calculations correct?

(i keep forgetting cc's)

-- 
Daniel Stodden
LRR     -      Lehrstuhl für Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation
Institut für Informatik der TU München             D-85748 Garching
http://www.lrr.in.tum.de/~stodden         mailto:stodden@xxxxxxxxxx
PGP Fingerprint: F5A4 1575 4C56 E26A 0B33  3D80 457E 82AE B0D8 735B

signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel