accessing msrs

Adam Lackorzynski adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
Wed Jan 16 19:04:59 CET 2013


On Tue Jan 15, 2013 at 16:25:54 -0800, Ryan Brown wrote:
> How does fiasco.oc handle accessing intel model specific registers? Is
> there any way to access these from user space or does this have to happen
> in the kernel?
> Specifically I'd like to access the paravirtualized clock when running
> under kvm.

Basically that has to happen in the kernel. There's no functionality to
access MSRs from user space but a quick and dirty hack is possible of
course.



Adam
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