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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4 of 4] Add a trace hypercall to allow tracing fr

To: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4 of 4] Add a trace hypercall to allow tracing from dom0 or domU
From: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:22:03 +0100
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At 12:17 +0100 on 18 Jul (1310991456), George Dunlap wrote:
> > George, is it worth trying to merge this into the existing HVMOP that
> > does the same thing?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "merging this into the existing HVMOP".
> Do you mean just having dom0 (or whoever) call HVMOP_trace instead of
> making a separate hypercall?

No, I just meant sharing some code.  The new hypercall adds struct
xen_guest_xentrace, which is basically a dup of struct xen_hvm_xentrace,
and do_xentrace_op() looks very like the code in do_hvm_op().

Tim.

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Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)

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