Re: [PATCH] disable interrupt shadow state for emulated instruction

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Apr 09 2009 - 03:39:35 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:

How does this logic work when the instruction emulated is an STI or MOV SS instruction? In particular, when does GUEST_INTERRUPTIBILITY_INFO sets set to reflect the *blocking* operation?

The processor sets it when emulating an sti or mov ss instruction. We ought to set it when emulating same.


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