>>> On 16.03.16 at 16:02, <paul.durr...@citrix.com> wrote: >> From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad.w...@oracle.com] >> Sent: 15 March 2016 23:18 >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 04:14:16PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote: >> > + domain_crash(v->domain); >> > + >> > + v->arch.hvm_vcpu.viridian.apic_assist.vector = vector; >> > + *(uint32_t *)va |= 1u; >> >> Oh my. What does that do? Why not 0xBADF00D >> Is that prescriped in the spec? > > The LSB is the only bit that has defined functionality. The next 31 bits are > reserved and the rest of the page is undefined. > >> >> That looks quite unhealthy to do. >> > > Reading the spec. again I do see that the reserved bits are defined to be > zero, so it looks like I can use = rather than |=.
Wouldn't that put at risk forward compatibility? Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel