David, Are you still working on v2 of these series? I was going to test
and review. Thanks

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Edmondson <d...@dme.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 3:25 AM
> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Cc: k...@vger.kernel.org; Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com>; Paolo
> Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>; Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com>;
> Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org>; Moger, Babu
> <babu.mo...@amd.com>
> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Support protection keys in an AMD EPYC-Milan
> VM
> 
> On Thursday, 2021-05-20 at 15:56:40 +01, David Edmondson wrote:
> 
> > AMD EPYC-Milan CPUs introduced support for protection keys, previously
> > available only with Intel CPUs.
> >
> > AMD chose to place the XSAVE state component for the protection keys
> > at a different offset in the XSAVE state area than that chosen by
> > Intel.
> >
> > To accommodate this, modify QEMU to behave appropriately on AMD
> > systems, allowing a VM to properly take advantage of the new feature.
> >
> > Further, avoid manipulating XSAVE state components that are not
> > present on AMD systems.
> >
> > The code in patch 6 that changes the CPUID 0x0d leaf is mostly dumped
> > somewhere that seemed to work - I'm not sure where it really belongs.
> 
> Ping - any thoughts about this approach?
> 
> > David Edmondson (7):
> >   target/i386: Declare constants for XSAVE offsets
> >   target/i386: Use constants for XSAVE offsets
> >   target/i386: Clarify the padding requirements of X86XSaveArea
> >   target/i386: Prepare for per-vendor X86XSaveArea layout
> >   target/i386: Introduce AMD X86XSaveArea sub-union
> >   target/i386: Adjust AMD XSAVE PKRU area offset in CPUID leaf 0xd
> >   target/i386: Manipulate only AMD XSAVE state on AMD
> >
> >  target/i386/cpu.c            | 19 +++++----
> >  target/i386/cpu.h            | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> >  target/i386/kvm/kvm.c        | 57 +++++++++----------------
> >  target/i386/tcg/fpu_helper.c | 20 ++++++---
> >  target/i386/xsave_helper.c   | 70 +++++++++++++++++++------------
> >  5 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.30.2
> 
> dme.
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