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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v10 09/20] x86/VPMU: Add public xenpmu.h



On 09/10/2014 10:45 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 04.09.14 at 05:41, <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
+struct xen_pmu_arch {
+    union {
+        struct cpu_user_regs regs;
+        uint8_t pad[256];
+    } r;
Can you remind me again what you need the union and padding for
here?

This structure is laid out in a shared page with a (possibly 32-bit) guest who need to access fields that follow this union.

-boris

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