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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] x86/compat: Test both PV and PVH
 guests for compat mode
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 03:19:20 -0600
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>>> On 24.07.15 at 19:54, <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 07/23/2015 10:07 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Plus - is this in line with what the tools are doing? Aren't they
>> assuming !PV <=> native format context? I.e. don't you need
>> to treat differently v->domain == current->domain and its
>> opposite? Roger btw. raised a similar question on IRC earlier
>> today...
> 
> Not sure I understand this. You mean for copying 64-bit guest's info 
> into 32-bit dom0?

Basically yes - tool stack and guest invocations may need to
behave differently.

Jan