On 02.07.2013 17:45, Nilay Vaish wrote: 

> On Fri, 28 Jun 2013,
Andreas Sandberg wrote:
> 
>> You're right about the uPC not being used
in that case. However, still think that it is a bad idea to allow a
drained system to be in a microcode sequence. My main concern is that
this will lead to subtle and hard to find bugs related to CPU switching
and it'll make the draining code harder to understand. Adding a
halt+eret would microop would solve the issue in a cleaner way in my
opinion.
> 
> Though I have not tested this patch with other ISAs, but I
am guessing 
> similar issue can arise with them. Therefore, it would be
better if we fix 
> the cpu model.

Does stopping in the middle prevent
the virtualization code from working? 

Ali 

 
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