Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 00/10] x86emul: further work

[Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 24 March 2020 12:43
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>; Paul Durrant <paul@xxxxxxx>; 
> Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>;
> Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/10] x86emul: further work
> 
> Paul,On 24.03.2020 13:26, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > Some of the later patches are still at least partly RFC, for
> > varying reasons (see there). I'd appreciate though if at least
> > some of the earlier ones could go in rather sooner than later.
> >
> > Patch 1 functionally (for the test harness) depends on
> > "libx86/CPUID: fix (not just) leaf 7 processing", while at
> > least patch 2 contextually depends on "x86emul: disable
> > FPU/MMX/SIMD insn emulation when !HVM".
> >
> >  1: x86emul: support AVX512_BF16 insns
> 
> I should note that I also have a VP2INTERSECT patch ready, but the
> just released SDE segfaults when trying to test it. I'll be holding
> this back for some more time, I guess.
> 
> >  2: x86emul: support MOVDIRI insn
> >  3: x86: determine HAVE_AS_* just once
> >  4: x86: move back clang no integrated assembler tests
> >  5: x86emul: support MOVDIR64B insn
> >  6: x86emul: support ENQCMD insn
> >  7: x86/HVM: scale MPERF values reported to guests (on AMD)
> >  8: x86emul: support RDPRU
> >  9: x86/HVM: don't needlessly intercept APERF/MPERF/TSC MSR reads
> > 10: x86emul: support MCOMMIT
> 
> Paul, I should also note that I mistakenly Cc-ed your old Citrix
> address. I'd like to avoid re-posting the series - do you perhaps
> nevertheless get the xen-devel copies?
> 

Yeah I have them. My filters just moved them into my general 'xen' mailbox but 
I got them.

  Paul

> Jan