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* floating point state?
@ 2007-03-15  4:02 Hollis Blanchard
  2007-03-15  4:19 ` Hollis Blanchard
  2007-03-15  8:24 ` Avi Kivity
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From: Hollis Blanchard @ 2007-03-15  4:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f

This may just be my unfamiliarity with x86, but I can't see where the
floating point state is being saved, and it doesn't seem to be part of
the KVM_GET_REGS or KVM_GET_SREGS interfaces.

It's being saved and restored fine, but since it's not part of the
userspace interface I guess that would mean FP state is inaccessible to
host tools and will be lost across save/resume?

I don't see where MMX state is being handled at all. Does that work?

-Hollis


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* Re: floating point state?
  2007-03-15  4:02 floating point state? Hollis Blanchard
@ 2007-03-15  4:19 ` Hollis Blanchard
  2007-03-15  8:24 ` Avi Kivity
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Hollis Blanchard @ 2007-03-15  4:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 23:02 -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> 
> I don't see where MMX state is being handled at all. Does that work?

Oops, forgot that MMX uses the floating point registers. I was just
trying to think of any other "extra" register state that might have been
overlooked.

-Hollis


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* Re: floating point state?
  2007-03-15  4:02 floating point state? Hollis Blanchard
  2007-03-15  4:19 ` Hollis Blanchard
@ 2007-03-15  8:24 ` Avi Kivity
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Avi Kivity @ 2007-03-15  8:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Hollis Blanchard; +Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f

Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> This may just be my unfamiliarity with x86, but I can't see where the
> floating point state is being saved, and it doesn't seem to be part of
> the KVM_GET_REGS or KVM_GET_SREGS interfaces.
>
>   

Oops.


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