From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
"Andre Przywara" <andre@andrep.de>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Jörg Rödel" <joro@8bytes.org>,
x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] kvm: Emulate MOVBE
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:42:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130424084208.GI12401@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51771E53.30800@zytor.com>
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 04:50:43PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/23/2013 04:41 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >
> > Btw, in thinking about this more, I'm kinda sceptical we want to use the
> > CPUID layout for this new KVM_GET_EMULATED_* ioctl. And the reason why
> > I'm sceptical is that not every instruction is behind a CPUID capability
> > bit and if we want to tell userspace that we do emulate any insn, even
> > one for which there's no CPUID bit, we're going to have to either
> > simulate a kvm-specific CPUID leaf or, maybe even better, come up with
> > our own format for emulated capabilities. Maybe a bit vector with set
> > bits for the respective capability, or something more nifty.
> >
> > In any case, it doesn't really need to be CPUID-like, IMHO.
> >
>
> Using CPUID has the major advantage that it is well-defined.
>
This. And I really hope vendors will not add instructions without
corespondent CPUID bits nowadays.
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-24 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-09 23:46 [RFC PATCH] Emulate MOVBE Borislav Petkov
2013-04-10 0:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-10 0:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-10 9:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-10 9:29 ` Andre Przywara
2013-04-10 10:08 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-10 10:17 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-10 10:21 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-10 10:39 ` Andre Przywara
2013-04-10 12:16 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-11 0:18 ` [PATCH -v2] kvm: " Borislav Petkov
2013-04-11 14:28 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-11 15:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-14 7:41 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-14 17:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-14 18:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-14 19:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-14 19:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-16 17:42 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-17 11:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-17 13:38 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-17 14:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-18 22:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-21 9:46 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-21 11:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-21 12:51 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-23 23:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-23 23:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-24 8:42 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2013-04-24 8:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-14 8:43 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-14 21:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-16 11:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-21 11:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-21 12:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-22 8:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-22 9:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-22 9:42 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-22 9:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-22 9:58 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-22 13:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-26 16:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-16 11:47 ` [RFC PATCH] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-16 12:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-16 12:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-16 17:28 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-17 10:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-17 13:33 ` Gleb Natapov
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