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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "Gleb Natapov" <gleb@redhat.com>,
	"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: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:50:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51771E53.30800@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130423234150.GA31444@pd.tnic>

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.

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-23 23:51 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 [this message]
2013-04-24  8:42                                       ` Gleb Natapov
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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