From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@qumranet.com, riel@surriel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_emulate: Emulate nop (0x90) instruction
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:08:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4853DF0A.6030401@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52d4a3890806140635g23ce598dlcba6b3a88ce69de9@mail.gmail.com>
> Thanks for pointing this out. 0x90 is also the opcode for xchg r8,rAX
> instruction.
But nop doesn't actually need to execute exchange.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-14 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-14 11:50 [PATCH] x86_emulate: Emulate nop (0x90) instruction Mohammed Gamal
2008-06-14 13:26 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-14 13:35 ` Mohammed Gamal
2008-06-14 15:08 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-06-14 15:26 ` Avi Kivity
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