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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Crash with paravirt-ops 2.6.31.6 kernel
On 23/11/2009 16:44, "Ian Campbell" <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> But this is not just the return-to-user-space path you're changing, but
>> also the hypercall one. You certainly don't want an iret in that case.
>
> Don't the hypercalls already always go via iret?
> - testw $TRAP_syscall,4(%rsp)
> - jz iret_exit_to_guest
> IOW if TRAP_syscall is not set (i.e. this is a hypercall not a syscall)
> then exit via iret.
I think not -- here TRAP_syscall means 'entered Xen via SYSCALL
instruction', not 'entered to do a syscall'. TRAP_syscall should be set
regardless of whether the SYSCALL instruction was executed by guest userland
or guest kernel.
-- Keir
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