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To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Gleb Natapov wrote:

  

>> Maybe we should unexecute the software interrupt instruction on Intel  
>> and get the same effect.
>>
>>     
> We don't need to unexecute anything. We get exit with RIP pointing to
> the offending instruction. The right thing on VMX to do is to inject
> software interrupt with correct instruction length. Processor will do
> the rest. Remind me please why do we try to find problems where there is
> none? We will do right thing and fix migration code to do right thing.
>
>   

I don't want the migration protocol to encode vendor specific 
information. The architectural state is complicated enough, we don't 
want microarchitectural state as well.

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