linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Export offsets of VMCS fields as note information for kdump

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Message-ID: <20120411102136.GG2428@amd.com>
Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:21:37 +0200
From:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
To:	zhangyanfei <zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	<avi@...hat.com>, <mtosatti@...hat.com>, <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	<luto@....edu>, <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	<paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>, <gregkh@...e.de>,
	<ludwig.nussel@...e.de>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<kvm@...r.kernel.org>, <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Export offsets of VMCS fields as note information
 for kdump

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:39:43AM +0800, zhangyanfei wrote:
> The problem is that VMCS internal is hidden by Intel in its
> specification. So, we reverse engineering it in the way implemented in
> this patch set.

Have you made sure this layout is the same on all uarchitectures that
implment VMX?


	Joerg

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