On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:40:35PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/25/2012 04:12 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>
> >> Right. But I think we can have x86_linearize() that doesn't take a
> >> context parameter, only ops.
> >>
> > All ops take context parameter though.
> >
>
> context is meaningful for:
> - saving state between executions (decode/execute/execute)
> - passing state that is not provided via callbacks (regs/mode/flags)
> - returning results
>
> Only the second is relevant, and we're trying to get rid of that too.
>
Callbacks were passed pointer to vcpu, but they were changed to get ctxt
to better encapsulate emulator.c from rest of the KVM. Are you suggesting
this was a mistake and we need to rework callbacks to receive pointer
to vcpu again? I hope not :)
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Gleb.
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