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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] fix INIT injection



Hi Yamahata-san,

Isaku Yamahata writes:
> Although I committed the patch, I reconsidered on this.
> What prevents from setting mm_switch_table[][0] to SW_2P_DT?
> Even if guest OS never does state transitions, its state is
> deterministic. So I don't get your point.
> If setting the them to SW_2P_DT causes problems, shouldn't we fix
> them?

Ideally, Yes. But I guess the first purpose of mm_switch_table was
sanity checking of guest OS's behavior. So I don't want to touch it.
And besides I'm conservative. 
Although replacing SW_NOP to SW_2PT_DT may work, the meaning will be lost.

Indeed SW_NOP had better be fixed. 
But physical emulation only for instruction is not implemented yet
and I don't think it's easy to support it. Testing is a difficulty.

It's enough for me for the moment.

Thanks,
Kouya

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