[Xen-users] A question about SYSENTER/SYSEXIT in HVM guest

[Guofu Xiang <whxgf1984@xxxxxxxxx>]

The CPU type of our server is Intel Xeon E5310, and the OS is Fedora 8. Xen 3.2 is installed by Compilation. When the HVM guest is x86_32 Fedora 8, the system call is implemented by instruction - int $80h. Our debug result by gdb is as follow.

 

Dump of assembler code for function __kernel_vsyscall:
0xb7f87400 <__kernel_vsyscall+0>:       int    $0x80
0xb7f87402 <__kernel_vsyscall+2>:       ret   
End of assembler dump.

 

However, when the HVM guest is x86_64 Fedora 8, the system call is implemented by instruction - syscall. The debug result is as fellow:

 

Dump of assembler code for function getuid:
0x00000036e7296220 <getuid+0>:  mov    $0x66,%eax
0x00000036e7296225 <getuid+5>:  syscall
0x00000036e7296227 <getuid+7>:  retq

 

As far as I know, fast system call is implemented by sysenter on Intel CPU, and syscall on AMD CPU. Why the debug result is syscall, rather than sysenter?

If the HVM guest is x86_32 Fedora 8, can we set the system call implementation by sysenter? In x86_64 OS, is all system call is implemented by syscall?

 

Thank you for your response!

 

 

 

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