linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h

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Date:	Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:29:43 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h


> That is a really nasty problem.  You need a synchronization primitive 
> which guarantees a flat stack, so you can't do it in the interrupt 
> handler as I have tried to do.  I'll bang my head on it awhile.  In the 
> meantime, were there ever any solutions to the syscall patching problem 
> that might lend me a clue as to what to do (or not to do, or impossible?).

yes we just disallowed it :)


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