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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 10/24] xen: mask XSAVE from cpuid 
| To: | "Andi Kleen" <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |  
| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 10/24] xen: mask XSAVE from cpuid |  
| From: | "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> |  
| Date: | Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:55:35 +0000 |  
| Cc: | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>,	Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@xxxxxxxxxx>,	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>,	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |  
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| >>> Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 17.03.09 11:48 >>>
>> No, properly coded xsave support will (hopefully) make user-visible context
>> extensions transparent to hypervisor and OS. But I was giving a general
>> example here, and the change from xmm to ymm registers is one that does
>> need hypervisor (and OS) changes.
>
>Again except for XSAVE support it doesn't, does it?
No, it shouldn't (minus the valid comments hpa added in another reply).
Jan
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