Re: [Xen-devel] arch_set_info_guest() producing inconsistent state on x86?

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 29.03.11 at 11:59, Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 29/03/2011 09:01, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> The question is whether it must be considered legal to issue
>> XEN_DOMCTL_setvcpucontext on an already initialized vCPU
>> in the first place.
> 
> It's probably used by debuggers running in dom0? Also see
> modify_returncode() in libxc/xc_resume.c -- so it's used on suspend resume
> in the failure case.
> 
> I doubt anything other than GPRs are ever modified after first
> initialisation.

So should we then perhaps make the function check the bits
it doesn't really update match what is in place already?

Jan


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