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Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests

From Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests
Date 2015-11-18 23:10 +0100
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On 11/18/2015 03:58 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can you just add !xen_pv_domain() to the opportunistic SYSRET check
>> instead?  Bury the alternatives in that macro, ie.
>> static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XENPV).  That would likely benefit other
>> code as well.
> We could, but that won't help the 64-bit case where we want to keep
> the full asm path.

I don't think I understand what you mean here. Which full asm path?

-boris


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[PATCH 0/3] Fix and cleanup for 32-bit PV sysexit Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2015-11-18 21:10 +0100
  [PATCH 1/3] x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2015-11-18 21:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-11-18 21:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2015-11-18 21:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 22:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-11-18 22:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2015-11-18 23:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2015-11-19 13:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix and cleanup for 32-bit PV sysexit Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2015-11-19 13:20 +0100

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