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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:23:22 +0300
From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, agraf@...e.de, pmullaney@...ell.com,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 03/19] vbus: add connection-client helper infrastructure
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Also - if we just had vmexit because a process executed
> io (or hypercall), can't we just do copy_to_user there?
> Avi, I think at some point you said that we can?
>
You can do copy_to_user() whereever it is legal in Linux. Almost all of
kvm runs in process context, preemptible, and with interrupts enabled.
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