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From: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86: emulator improvements
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:26:37 +0000
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On 16/11/2011 14:15, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:

>>>> On 16.11.11 at 14:59, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>> 1: x86/emulator: add feature checks for newer instructions
>> 2: x86/emulator: generalize movq emulation (SSE2 and AVX variants)
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> 
> If this is acceptable, I'm planning to add support for {,v}mov{a,u}p{s,d}
> and {,v}movntp{s,d} (plus the respective opcode variants, even though
> I think we only really need full width loads and stores for the next little
> while) to deal with reports like in
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-10/msg00296.html.

Absolutely fine in principle. I'm only quibbling over details in your
current patch 2/2.

 -- Keir

> Jan
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