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From: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 v2] XSAVE/XRSTOR fixes and enhancements
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:17:37 +0800
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To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com>
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Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 15:52 +0100 on 31 Aug (1283269931), Han, Weidong wrote:
>   
>> Change logs from v1 -> v2: Due to not guarantee backward
>> 	compatibility, drop the guest save/restore patch here. Will
>> 	re-implement it later.
>>     
>
> That's OK for review but we can't apply the rest of these patches
> without the save/restore one; it'll just silently break save/restore for
> HVM guests.
>
> XSAVE/XRSTOR was already enabled by Dexuan for months, but it misses save/restore xstates. Actually it already breaks hvm guests save/restore on platforms which supports XSAVE/XRSTOR. 
>   
Regards,
Weidong
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