linux-kernel - Re: [Lguest] [PATCH] Introduce "used_vectors" bitmap which can be used to reserve vectors.

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Message-ID: <13426df10709181538u3dfc01acwe900fcfc9d33a7e8@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:38:55 -0700
From:	"ron minnich" <rminnich@...il.com>
To:	"Rusty Russell" <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	"Andi Kleen" <ak@....de>, lguest <lguest@...abs.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"lkml - Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Lguest] [PATCH] Introduce "used_vectors" bitmap which can be used to reserve vectors.

On 9/13/07, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Andi and everyone,
>
>         Wanted to get your thoughts on this patch.  lguest now supports plan9
> guests which use 0x40 for system calls.  We want to let the guests use
> that vector if available, but have no way to stop io_apic from
> clobbering it.  This does that, and also simplifies the current code a
> little.

I can confirm that this patch supports Plan 9 perfectly as a guest.

thanks

ron
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