| To: | Sanjay Lal <sanjayl@kymasys.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH 07/20] KVM/MIPS32: Dynamic binary translation of select privileged instructions. |
| From: | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> |
| Date: | Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:24:28 +0200 |
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On 10/31/2012 05:19 PM, Sanjay Lal wrote: > Currently, the following instructions are translated: > - CACHE (indexed) > - CACHE (va based): translated to a synci, overkill on D-CACHE operations, > but still much faster than a trap. > - mfc0/mtc0: the virtual COP0 registers for the guest are implemented as 2-D > array > [COP#][SEL] and this is mapped into the guest kernel address space @ VA 0x0. > mfc0/mtc0 operations are transformed to load/stores. > Seems to be more of binary patching, yes? Binary translation usually involves hiding the translated code so the guest is not able to detect that it is patched. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function |
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