On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 04:37:33PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 10.01.2012 18:51, schrieb Joerg Roedel:
> >> Joerg, do you know how can we check that task switch was cause by an
> >> exception triggering task gate if exit_int_info is not provided during
> >> intercept (short of decoding instruction that caused intercept to see if
> >> it's a call to a gate, which is racy) ?
> >
> > Hmm, havn't found a solution yet. But I will check further and let you
> > know if I find out something.
>
> Jörg, any news on this?
Not yet. We are currently trying to figure out which priviledge checks
the software has to do and which ones are done by the hardware before a
task-switch intercept is thrown.
Joerg
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