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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] x86: emulator improvements

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/2] x86: emulator improvements
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:15:36 +0000
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>>> On 16.11.11 at 14:59, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 1: x86/emulator: add feature checks for newer instructions
> 2: x86/emulator: generalize movq emulation (SSE2 and AVX variants)
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> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

If this is acceptable, I'm planning to add support for {,v}mov{a,u}p{s,d}
and {,v}movntp{s,d} (plus the respective opcode variants, even though
I think we only really need full width loads and stores for the next little
while) to deal with reports like in
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-10/msg00296.html.

Jan


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