On 16.11.20 17:28, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 7:23 AM Juergen Gross wrote:
USERGS_SYSRET64 is used to return from a syscall via sysret, but
a Xen PV guest will nevertheless use the iret hypercall, as there
is no sysret PV hypercall defined.
So instead of testing all the pr
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 7:23 AM Juergen Gross wrote:
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> USERGS_SYSRET64 is used to return from a syscall via sysret, but
> a Xen PV guest will nevertheless use the iret hypercall, as there
> is no sysret PV hypercall defined.
>
> So instead of testing all the prerequisites for doing a sysret and
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 7:23 AM Juergen Gross wrote:
>
> USERGS_SYSRET64 is used to return from a syscall via sysret, but
> a Xen PV guest will nevertheless use the iret hypercall, as there
> is no sysret PV hypercall defined.
>
> So instead of testing all the prerequisites for doing a sysret and
USERGS_SYSRET64 is used to return from a syscall via sysret, but
a Xen PV guest will nevertheless use the iret hypercall, as there
is no sysret PV hypercall defined.
So instead of testing all the prerequisites for doing a sysret and
then mangling the stack for Xen PV again for doing an iret just u