> On Nov 6, 2014, at 16:10, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On 06/11/2014 10:15, Nadav Amit wrote: >> As we run out of bits in the KVM emulator instruction flags, we can merge >> together the Mmx/Sse/Avx bits. These bits are mutual exclusive (i.e., each >> instruction is either MMX, SSE, AVX, or none), so we can save one bit in the >> flags by merging them. > > Do we need the Avx bit at all? Currently it is a dup of Unaligned, and > I think we can just reuse Unaligned. If we see VEX, we just do "ctxt->d > |= Unaligned". > > AVX instructions are just tweaks of the operand length and the alignment > restrictions of SSE instructions, there is nothing really special about > them.
Hmm… I do not think this is the case. AVX instruction have some things in common, which are currently not implemented (since no instruction is marked as AVX), but should be if anyone implements the emulation of AVX instructions: 1. They should cause #UD if CR4.OSXSAVE=0 or XCR0[2:1] != 3, or CPUID[1].AVX = 0. 2. They should cause #NM if CR0.TS = 1 (like SSE/MMX) 3. They work on YMM registers (256-bit long; unlike SSE/MMX) The first case should usually be less interesting if #UD actually happens - since #UD take precedence over exit. The second one surely needs to be checked. The third one determines the registers type. Nadav-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
