From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 1/24] i386 Vmi documentation
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:57:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060322215732.GL15997@sorel.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603222213.45910.ak@suse.de>
* Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de) wrote:
> Even then it's useless for many flags because any user program can (and will)
> call CPUID directly.
Yes, doesn't handle userspace at all. It's useful only to get coherent
view of flags in kernel. Right now, for example, Xen goes in and
basically masks off flags retroactively which is not that nice either.
thanks,
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-22 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200603131759.k2DHxeep005627@zach-dev.vmware.com>
[not found] ` <20060313224902.GD12807@sorel.sous-sol.org>
2006-03-14 0:00 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-14 21:27 ` Chris Wright
[not found] ` <441743BD.1070108@vmware.com>
2006-03-15 2:57 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-15 5:44 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-15 22:56 ` Daniel Arai
2006-03-16 1:16 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-16 3:40 ` Eli Collins
2006-03-14 4:11 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-22 20:05 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-22 21:34 ` Chris Wright
2006-03-22 21:13 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-22 21:57 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2006-03-23 0:06 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-22 21:39 ` [RFC, PATCH 1/24] i386 Vmi documentation II Andi Kleen
2006-03-22 22:43 ` Daniel Arai
2006-03-22 22:45 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-22 22:38 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-22 23:54 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-03-22 23:37 ` Andi Kleen
2006-03-22 22:04 ` [RFC, PATCH 1/24] i386 Vmi documentation Zachary Amsden
2006-03-22 21:58 ` Andi Kleen
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