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Re: [PATCH v1] xen: get rid of paravirt op adjust_exception_frame

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On 26/07/17 15:48, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> wrote:
>> When running as Xen pv-guest the exception frame on the stack contains
>> %r11 and %rcx additional to the other data pushed by the processor.
>>
>> Instead of having a paravirt op being called for each exception type
>> prepend the Xen specific code to each exception entry. When running as
>> Xen pv-guest just use the exception entry with prepended instructions,
>> otherwise use the entry without the Xen specific code.
> 
> I think this is a nice cleanup, but I'm wondering if it would be even
> nicer if the Xen part was kept out-of-line.  That is, could Xen have
> little stubs like:
> 
> xen_alignment_check:
>   pop %rcx
>   pop %r11
>   jmp alignment_check
> 
> rather than using the macros in entry_64.S that you have?  Then you
> could adjust set_trap_gate instead of pack_gate and maybe even do
> something like:
> 
> #define set_trap_gate(..., name, ...) set_native_or_xen_trap_gate(...,
> name, xen_##name, ...)

I think I'll have something like:

#define pv_trap_entry(name) (xen_pv_domain() ? xen_ ## name : name)

and use it like:

set_intr_gate(X86_TRAP_AC, pv_trap_entry(alignment_check));

This will avoid having to define macros for all variants of
set_intr_gate(), e.g. set_intr_gate_ist(), set_system_intr_gate().

Do you have any objections?


Juergen

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[PATCH v1] xen: get rid of paravirt op adjust_exception_frame Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-07-24 16:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v1] xen: get rid of paravirt op adjust_exception_frame Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-07-26 15:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v1] xen: get rid of paravirt op adjust_exception_frame Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2017-07-26 15:50 +0200
    Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1] xen: get rid of paravirt op  adjust_exception_frame Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> - 2017-07-26 16:10 +0200
      Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1] xen: get rid of paravirt op adjust_exception_frame Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2017-07-26 16:10 +0200
        Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1] xen: get rid of paravirt op  adjust_exception_frame Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> - 2017-07-26 16:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v1] xen: get rid of paravirt op adjust_exception_frame Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-07-26 17:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v1] xen: get rid of paravirt op adjust_exception_frame Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-07-26 18:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v1] xen: get rid of paravirt op adjust_exception_frame Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2017-07-26 20:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v1] xen: get rid of paravirt op adjust_exception_frame Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-07-26 20:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v1] xen: get rid of paravirt op adjust_exception_frame Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2017-07-26 22:20 +0200

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