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From: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86emul: support clzero
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:55:18 -0600
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On 9/22/2015 8:06 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> ... in anticipation of this possibly going to get used by guests for
> basic thinks like memset() or clearing or pages.
>
> Since the emulation doesn't use clzero itself, checking the guest's
> CPUID for the feature to be exposed is (intentionally) being avoided
> here. All that's required is sensible guest side data for the clflush
> line size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>
>

Reviewed-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>

Thanks,
-Aravind.