From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Pratap Subrahmanyam <pratap@vmware.com>,
Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch] SMP alternatives
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:32:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051123223253.GX20775@brahms.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4384EC68.1060302@zytor.com>
> Well, with VTX or Pacifica virtualization is in ring 3. The fact that
Not it's not. The whole point is that there is no "ring compression"
The guest has all its normal rings, just the hypervisor has additional
"negative" rings.
In the current Xen x86-64 para virtualization setup the guest kernel
is in ring 3, but I hope VT/P. will do away with that because it
causes lots of issues.
> What you really want is one bit for kernel mode (cpl 0-2) and one for
> user mode (cpl 3).
Yes.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-23 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 163+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-10 0:32 [PATCH 1/10] Cr4 is valid on some 486s Zachary Amsden
2005-11-11 10:36 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-11 17:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-11 18:00 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-11-11 19:36 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-11 19:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-11 20:14 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-11 20:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-13 7:42 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-13 10:59 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-13 17:26 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-13 17:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-11-13 19:00 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-13 19:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-11-13 19:41 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-13 19:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-13 21:32 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-14 7:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-13 19:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-13 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-13 20:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-14 15:06 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-11-14 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-14 19:46 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-14 19:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-14 20:34 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-14 20:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-15 14:12 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-11-15 16:01 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-11-15 16:04 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-15 16:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-15 16:10 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-15 16:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-15 16:19 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-15 16:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-15 16:34 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-15 16:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-15 16:24 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-15 16:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-15 16:16 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-11-15 16:08 ` Roland Dreier
2005-11-16 9:58 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-11-15 16:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-15 16:16 ` Dave Jones
2005-11-15 16:27 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-11-16 16:12 ` [RFC] SMP alternatives Gerd Knorr
2005-11-22 17:48 ` [patch] " Gerd Knorr
2005-11-22 18:01 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-23 15:12 ` Vincent Hanquez
2005-11-23 19:17 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-23 15:29 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-11-23 16:42 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-23 16:39 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-23 17:21 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-23 16:59 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-23 22:00 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-24 13:13 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-24 13:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-11-24 13:39 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-24 13:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-11-24 19:16 ` thockin
2005-11-24 19:26 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-24 14:34 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-24 14:22 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-24 15:15 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-24 14:55 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-24 15:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-11-24 15:36 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-24 16:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-11-24 19:12 ` thockin
2005-11-24 19:14 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-24 19:24 ` thockin
2005-11-24 19:29 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-24 19:44 ` thockin
2005-11-24 21:20 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-24 21:40 ` thockin
2005-11-24 23:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-11-24 23:12 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-24 22:48 ` thockin
2005-11-24 23:35 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-25 0:13 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-25 1:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-28 19:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-24 16:02 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-24 19:09 ` thockin
2005-11-24 14:30 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-23 17:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-23 18:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-23 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-23 17:26 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-23 19:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-23 19:31 ` jmerkey
2005-11-23 18:46 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-23 19:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-23 19:30 ` jmerkey
2005-11-23 21:44 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-23 21:13 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-23 21:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-23 22:23 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-23 22:30 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-23 22:05 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-23 21:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-23 21:36 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-23 22:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-23 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-23 21:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-23 22:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-23 22:22 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-23 22:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-23 22:32 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-11-23 22:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-23 22:40 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-23 22:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-23 23:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-24 0:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-23 21:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-23 21:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-23 22:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-23 22:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-23 22:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-23 23:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-11-23 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-23 22:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-23 22:20 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-23 23:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-23 23:02 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-23 23:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-23 23:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-24 2:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-24 22:32 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-11-28 19:58 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-24 1:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-24 13:01 ` Pádraig Brady
2005-11-24 13:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-28 19:52 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-28 20:05 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-28 22:19 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-28 23:00 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-28 23:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-28 23:30 ` Zachary Amsden
2005-11-28 23:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-28 23:12 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-23 22:50 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-23 22:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-25 7:38 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-11-25 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-28 20:25 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-25 20:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-24 3:23 ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-11-24 3:31 ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-11-24 3:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-24 22:30 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-11-23 16:43 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-11-23 16:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-11-24 17:48 linux
2005-11-24 18:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-24 18:24 colin
2006-01-24 15:33 [PATCH] " Gerd Hoffmann
2006-01-24 16:22 ` Ben Collins
2006-01-25 9:20 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-01-26 10:22 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-26 11:17 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-01-26 11:48 ` Pavel Machek
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