on 11/10/2012 00:09 malc said the following: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 08/10/2012 12:02 Andriy Gapon said the following: >>> on 08/10/2012 10:52 malc said the following: >>>> On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I am running Qemu (plain, no kvm, etc) on an AMD 10h machine that >>>>> provides popcnt instruction. Qemu advertises availability of pocnt >>>>> to a guest as well. What I see in the guest that popcnt >>>>> 0x20(%r12),%r8 instruction actually placed its result into %rax. >>>>> With %rdi and %rax operands the instruction worked fine though. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Does following work? >>> >>> It does! Thank you very much. >> >> Do you plan to commit this fix? >> Is there anything that I should do to make that happen (sooner)? >> > > Submit a patch with a well thought out comment and it'll be commited. > > [..snip..] >
Hmm... Since you are the author of the patch, wouldn't be more appropriate for you to submit it? Besides, I can only mostly repeat the bug report as I do not quite understand the code and can not properly describe what the patch does. Sorry for not taking up the work, but I am really just a qemu user. -- Andriy Gapon