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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Liu Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH uq/master] kvm: always update the MPX model specific register
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:35:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52DFF353.1060307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140122152917.GA22855@amt.cnet>

Il 22/01/2014 16:29, Marcelo Tosatti ha scritto:
> > The original patch from Liu Jinsong restricted them to reset or full
> > state updates, but that's unnecessary (and wrong) since the BNDCFGS
> > MSR has no side effects.
>
> Why is it necessary to save/restore BNDCFGS MSR on states other
> than FULL and RESET?

Yes, nothing in QEMU except reset will touch the MSR, but this applies 
also to all the other MSRs that are saved unconditionally.  It's nice to 
be able to poke them with gdb, and saving/restoring the MSR provides that.

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2014-01-22 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-20 13:25 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH uq/master] kvm: always update the MPX model specific register Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-22 15:29 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2014-01-22 16:35   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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