[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] how page faults are handled in paravirtualized xenguests?
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 09:38 +0800, tgh wrote: > hi > and that is ,in 64-bit,guest application entry into guestos kernel > directly through SYSCALL,or not? no, you can't. programs use syscall to enter the kernel, and the kernel is using syscall to enter xen. since you can only configure one entry point at a time (and both xen and applications run in ring 3 anyway), xen is handling all syscalls, then checks the context it was issued from, and forwards the call to to the guest kernel if it was user code. regards, daniel -- Daniel Stodden LRR - Lehrstuhl fÃr Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation Institut fÃr Informatik der TU MÃnchen D-85748 Garching http://www.lrr.in.tum.de/~stodden mailto:stodden@xxxxxxxxxx PGP Fingerprint: F5A4 1575 4C56 E26A 0B33 3D80 457E 82AE B0D8 735B _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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