Re: [PATCH] deal with interrupt shadow state for emulated instruction

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Apr 14 2009 - 13:33:34 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
Why? Do you see a guest filling all of memory with 'mov ss' and expecting to break out of it via an interrupt?

Well I did try mapping a page of move ss all through memory on real
hardware long ago and seeing what happened on a 386 in real mode with
DOSEMU. I was disappointed ;)


Heheheheh....

-hpa
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