I think two issues here:
a) As said in previous mail, the mc_msrs is set to be 19, while for dom0,
mcinfo_extended contains at most 16. So if dom0 code simply loop based on
mc_msrs, it may be wrong.
b) 32-bit dom0 can''t get the extended MSR (r8. r9 etc), which is still
needed for analysis IMO.
One hack I can think out is, if dom0 is 32-on-64, we can change the mc_msrs when
copy that to guest in XEN_MC_fetch, but that should not fix item b still.
In fact, I don''t know if any platform has this extended MSR capability
:(
--jyh
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeulich@novell.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:39 PM
>To: Jiang, Yunhong
>Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
>Subject: Re: One question on mcinfo_extended
>
>The point of using void* here is that even in a 32-bit Dom0 running on
64-bit Xen
>should have access to all registers - I couldn''t think of anything
better back then. The
>implication is that Dom0 side code must be prepared to deal with that -
which I think
>isn''t the case at present.
>
>Jan
>
>>>> "Jiang, Yunhong" 04/20/10 10:20 AM >>>
>Hi, Jan, in 19465 changeset, the mcinfo_extended''s mc_msr is
changed to be an
>array of sizeof(void *) * 4. I assume your purpose is to make it works on
both 32 and
>64. But will it cause trouble to compatibility mode dom0? Especially if dom0
copy the
>information to local variable, and loop the variable through
>mcinfo_extended->mc_msrs?
>
>Thanks
>--jyh
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