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

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/03/2020 12:26, 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
>  2: x86emul: support MOVDIRI insn
>  3: x86: determine HAVE_AS_* just once

I have (in this order when threaded):

02/10 Support AVX512_BF16
02/10 Support MOVDIRI
01/10 Support AVX512_BF16
03/10 Determine HAS_AS_*

To a first approximation, the two AVX512_BF16 ones look identical, so
I'm going to assume that the first one (chronologically) was the error.

~Andrew