Anthony Liguori wrote:
> This patch refactors the current hypercall infrastructure to better support 
> live
> migration and SMP.  It eliminates the hypercall page by trapping the UD
> exception that would occur if you used the wrong hypercall instruction for the
> underlying architecture and replacing it with the right one lazily.
>
> It also introduces the infrastructure to probe for hypercall available via
> CPUID leaves 0x40000000.  CPUID leaf 0x40000001 should be filled out by
> userspace.
>
> A fall-out of this patch is that the unhandled hypercalls no longer trap to
> userspace.  There is very little reason though to use a hypercall to 
> communicate
> with userspace as PIO or MMIO can be used.  There is no code in tree that uses
> userspace hypercalls.
>
>   


Surprisingly, this patch kills Windows XP (ACPI HAL).  I'll try to find 
out why.


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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