Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 00/10] x86emul: further work

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 25.03.2020 12:41, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 24/03/2020 12:26, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Some of the later patches are still at least partly RFC, for
>> varying reasons (see there). I'd appreciate though if at least
>> some of the earlier ones could go in rather sooner than later.
>>
>> Patch 1 functionally (for the test harness) depends on
>> "libx86/CPUID: fix (not just) leaf 7 processing", while at
>> least patch 2 contextually depends on "x86emul: disable
>> FPU/MMX/SIMD insn emulation when !HVM".
>>
>>  1: x86emul: support AVX512_BF16 insns
>>  2: x86emul: support MOVDIRI insn
>>  3: x86: determine HAVE_AS_* just once
> 
> I have (in this order when threaded):
> 
> 02/10 Support AVX512_BF16
> 02/10 Support MOVDIRI
> 01/10 Support AVX512_BF16
> 03/10 Determine HAS_AS_*
> 
> To a first approximation, the two AVX512_BF16 ones look identical, so
> I'm going to assume that the first one (chronologically) was the error.

Yes indeed, sorry.

Jan