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Date:      Fri, 8 Nov 2019 13:51:18 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r354482 - head/sys/x86/x86
Message-ID:  <1d4ff16f-2c0c-8939-4876-4ceb0044d359@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <0100016e47e589be-1ed635b1-6701-43a8-88f7-79726e4bc036-000000@email.amazonses.com>
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On 08/11/2019 00:04, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 2019-11-07 13:34, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> On 07/11/2019 23:19, Colin Percival wrote:
>>> On 2019-11-07 13:14, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>>>   x86 stack_save_td_running() can work safely only if IPI_TRACE is a
>>>>   non-maskable interrupt.  But at the moment FreeBSD/Xen does not provide
>>>>   support for the NMI delivery mode.  So, mark the functionality as
>>>>   unsupported similarly to other platforms without NMI.
>>>> [...]
>>>> +#ifdef XENHVM
>>>
>>> I'm not sure this does what you intended.  XENHVM simply adds *support* for
>>> running under Xen/HVM, and it's part of the GENERIC kernel.
>>
>> Oh... I should not have rushed.
>> So, I should really check for a run-time Xen marker?
> 
> I'm guessing that you want
> 
> #include <sys/systm.h>
> 
> ...
> 
> 	if (vm_guest == VM_GUEST_XEN)
> 		return (EOPNOTSUPP);
> 

Colin, thank you again.
But it seems that adding NMI support to a type of guest which is FreeBSD turned
out to be much easier than I imagined.  In fact, Roger (royger@) has already
come up with a patch.  I will be testing it soon.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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