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x86: replace privileged instructions with paravirt macros
authorGlauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:32:08 +0000 (13:32 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:32:08 +0000 (13:32 +0100)
commit72fe4858544292ad64600765cb78bc02298c6b1c
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x86: replace privileged instructions with paravirt macros

The assembly code in entry_64.S issues a bunch of privileged instructions,
like cli, sti, swapgs, and others. Paravirt guests are forbidden to do so,
and we then replace them with macros that will do the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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