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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] i386: Remove ospke CPUID flag name
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:01:53 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180612150153.GK7451@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a8426bf6-7531-6306-d1c6-bb4c6c2099cd@redhat.com>

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 08:55:55AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/06/2018 22:37, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > RFC NOTE: Paolo, Richard, as far as I can see, there's no point
> > in enabling OSPKE in user-mode QEMU.  Do you confirm that?
> > 
> > OSPKE is not a static feature flag: it changes dynamically at
> > runtime depending on CR4, and it was never configurable: KVM
> > never returned OSPKE on GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID, and on TCG enables
> > it automatically if CR4_PKE_MASK is set.
> > 
> > Remove OSPKE from the feature name array so users don't try to
> > configure it manually.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
> 
> Yes, it's the same as OSXSAVE.  Thanks!

CR4_OSXSAVE_MASK is automatically enabled on user-mode QEMU,
though.

My question is if it would make any sense to enable CR4_PKE_MASK
too.

-- 
Eduardo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-12 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-11 20:37 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] i386: Remove ospke CPUID flag name Eduardo Habkost
2018-06-11 21:49 ` Richard Henderson
2018-06-12  6:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-06-12 15:01   ` Eduardo Habkost [this message]
2018-06-12 15:12     ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-06-12 18:25       ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-06-13 17:01         ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-06-13 17:16           ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-06-13 17:26             ` Paolo Bonzini

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