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From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Xen 4.2 TODO / Release Plan
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:50:42 +0100
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On 07/08/2012 07:38, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:

> Otoh, restoring from saved state that only includes MCG_CAP (but
> no MCi_CTL2-s) needs to be handled anyway (forcing MCi_CTL2
> to be zero, which would be trivial as that's the startup state, i.e.
> the only complication here is the variable size save record), so
> pushing this to post-4.2 as well is a reasonable alternative.
> 
> Keir, Ian?

I think we should leave it and handle the variable-sized save record in 4.3.
Using hvm_load_entry_zeroextend() to read in save records, with zero padding
for older shorter records, should be straightforward enough.

 -- Keir