linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 18/25] [PATCH] turn priviled operations into macros in entry.S

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Date:	Wed, 8 Aug 2007 08:37:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, mingo@...e.hu, chrisw@...s-sol.org,
	jeremy@...p.org, avi@...ranet.com, anthony@...emonkey.ws,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, lguest@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/25] [PATCH] turn priviled operations into macros in
 entry.S


On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:

>
> > Probably not, but this part of the code I don't fully understand.
>
> I would suggest to defer all this until at least one example to test it
> (except vsmp which is too simple) is around.

Who uses that code? NMIs and debug regs?  Lguest only has the host handle
the NMIs (doesn't pass to guest). And we haven't gotten to debug regs. Who
else uses that part of the code?

We can leave the "paranoid check" change out for this series.

-- Steve

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