Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm: sync registers?

[Paul Brook]

On Friday 07 November 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >   Hi,
> >
> > How does kvm sync registers between kernel and qemu env?
> > I see there are kvm_arch_{get,put}_registers() functions in
> > target-i386/kvm.c, but grep doesn't find a single call of them?
>
> Right now, it doesn't.  We should probably sync registers in the same
> places that kvm-userspace does (gdbstubs, vmport, etc.).
>
> I tried to always sync registers on every exit but this causes boot to
> fail. The same is true of kvm-userspace though and I've been meaning to
> dig into why this is.

Maybe due to do with inconsistencies between the segment register contents and 
the descriptor tables? I know I've written code that relies on this feature.

Paul