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Commit 283c95d0 authored by Radim Krčmář's avatar Radim Krčmář
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KVM: x86: emulate FXSAVE and FXRSTOR



Internal errors were reported on 16 bit fxsave and fxrstor with ipxe.
Old Intels don't have unrestricted_guest, so we have to emulate them.

The patch takes advantage of the hardware implementation.

AMD and Intel differ in saving and restoring other fields in first 32
bytes.  A test wrote 0xff to the fxsave area, 0 to upper bits of MCSXR
in the fxsave area, executed fxrstor, rewrote the fxsave area to 0xee,
and executed fxsave:

  Intel (Nehalem):
    7f 1f 7f 7f ff 00 ff 07 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00
    ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00
  Intel (Haswell -- deprecated FPU CS and FPU DS):
    7f 1f 7f 7f ff 00 ff 07 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00
    ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00
  AMD (Opteron 2300-series):
    7f 1f 7f 7f ff 00 ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee
    ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ff ff 00 00 ff ff 02 00

fxsave/fxrstor will only be emulated on early Intels, so KVM can't do
much to improve the situation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
parent aabba3c6
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