Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V8] xen/vm_event: Clean up control-register-write vm_events and add XCR0 event

[Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/04/2015 04:43 PM, Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 14:40 +0100 on 04 Jun (1433428815), Tim Deegan wrote:
>> At 16:45 +0300 on 29 May (1432917959), Razvan Cojocaru wrote:
>>> As suggested by Andrew Cooper, this patch attempts to remove
>>> some redundancy and allow for an easier time when adding vm_events
>>> for new control registers in the future, by having a single
>>> VM_EVENT_REASON_WRITE_CTRLREG vm_event type, meant to serve CR0,
>>> CR3, CR4 and (newly introduced) XCR0. The actual control register
>>> will be deduced by the new .index field in vm_event_write_ctrlreg
>>> (renamed from vm_event_mov_to_cr). The patch has also modified
>>> the xen-access.c test - it is now able to log CR3 events.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Ah, I see I've acked an old version.  The ack stands for v9, whough if
> you're going to v10, can you please rename the macro to, e,g,
> 
> #define hvm_event_crX(what, new, old) \
>     hvm_event_cr(VM_EVENT_X86_##what, new, old)

Of course, if Jan (who originally proposed the macro) doesn't have any
objections, I'll rename it.


Thanks,
Razvan

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