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[Xen-devel] Re: One question for CPUID for PV guest

To: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>, <jean.guyader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: One question for CPUID for PV guest
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 08:59:40 +0100
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Ke, Liping" <liping.ke@xxxxxxxxx>
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We'd have to keep a default policy at least for dom0 hardcoded in Xen.

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On 28/5/08 08:52, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So how about dom0? Does that mean we need different handler for dom0/PV
> guest in emulate_forced_invalid_op()?
> 
> -- Yunhong Jiang
> 
> 
> Keir Fraser <mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> There's no reason not to make PV CPUID similarly configurable.
>> 
>> -- Keir
>> 
>> On 28/5/08 08:19, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Keir/Jean, I have one question for changeset 17524 "Guest CPUID
>>> configuration" (The URL is
>>> 
>> 
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/staging/xen-unstable.hg?rev/18727843db60).
>>> This changeset  do CPUID caculation in libxc. My question is, why
> don't
>>> we have such support for PV guest? Currently PV guest's CPUID
>>> virtualization is hardcoded in emulate_forced_invalid_op(), is it
>>> possible to do things like hvm domain?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Yunhong Jiang



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