Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:43:20 +0200 | From | Joerg Roedel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: improve double fault handling |
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 01:30:42PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > Make the double fault handler use CPU-specific stacks. Add some > abstraction to simplify future change of other exception handlers to go > through task gates.
What is the benefit of exception handlers going through task gates? Hardware task switches are not very well supported in virtualization (e.g. its has issues in KVM and is also not in Xen for a long time).
Joerg
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