Re: [Qemu-devel] nested page table translation for non-x86 operating system

[陳韋任]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 08:54:12AM -0500, Xin Tong wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:23 AM, 陳韋任 <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> 1.  The control of gCR3 and hCR3 needs kernel access. While they can
> >> be set with a device module as what is done in kvm. Trapping into the
> >> kernel every time gCR3 is reseted might be too expensive.
> >
> >  Why the control of gCR3 needs kernel access? Isn't gCR3 just a field of the
> > CPUX86State? QEMU should have the control of it. Or you mean the trapping 
> > thing?
> 
> I do not think gCR3 is a field in the CPUx86State. I think inorder to
> change the guest CR3, we need to trap into the kernel as kvm does.

  If your scenario is pure QEMU (without kvm), I think gCR3 is a field in the
CPUx86State. See below,

typedef struct CPUX86State {

    ...

    target_ulong cr[5]; /* NOTE: cr1 is unused */

    ...
};

Or I misunderstand what you're trying to do?

Regards,
chenwj

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