Hi, version 2 of the DecodeAssist patches. Changes over version 1: - goes on top of the CR8 handling fix I sent out earlier this week (required for proper handling of CR8 exceptions) - handles exception cases properly (for mov cr and mov dr) - uses X86_FEATURE_ names instead of SVM_FEATURE names (for boot_cpu_has) (thanks to Joerg for spotting this) - use static_cpu_has where appropriate - some minor code cleanups (for instance cr register calculation) - move prefetch callback into x86_decode_insn and out of every fetch I refrained from ditching the callback at all, as I dont like extending every emulate_instruction call with "NULL, 0". But if this is desperately needed, I can still change it. - rename vendor specific prefetch function names
Upcoming AMD CPUs will have a SVM enhancement called DecodeAssist which will provide more information when intercepting certain events. These information allows to skip the instruction fetching and decoding and handle the intercept immediately. This patch set implements all the features which are documented in the recent AMD manual (APM vol. 2). For details see the patches. Please review and apply. Regards, Andre. -- 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
