Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756112AbZDNRdd (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:33:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753220AbZDNRdU (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:33:20 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:36406 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752504AbZDNRdU (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:33:20 -0400 Message-ID: <49E4C8C8.9060109@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:32:56 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Avi Kivity , Glauber Costa , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] deal with interrupt shadow state for emulated instruction References: <1239653210-10422-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <49E45894.7090700@redhat.com> <49E4B4D4.1020903@zytor.com> <49E4B654.6060101@redhat.com> <20090414183111.0243408e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090414183111.0243408e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 582 Lines: 17 Alan Cox wrote: >> Why? Do you see a guest filling all of memory with 'mov ss' and >> expecting to break out of it via an interrupt? > > Well I did try mapping a page of move ss all through memory on real > hardware long ago and seeing what happened on a 386 in real mode with > DOSEMU. I was disappointed ;) > Heheheheh.... -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/