linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX XSAVE features

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Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:30:51 +0100
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX
 XSAVE features



On 10/03/2016 13:28, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> 
>> Patch 1 ensures that all aspects of MPX are disabled when eager FPU
>> is disabled on the host.  Patch 2 is just a cleanup.
> 
> It looks good to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@...ux.intel.com>

Thanks very much!

> Now, more and more features depend on eger xsave, e.g, fpu, mpx and
> protection-key, maybe it is the time to rename eager-fpu to eager-xsave?

Yeah, that could be possible.  You can propose it to Ingo Molnar (CCed).
 If you change it in the general purpose kernel code, KVM will of course
follow suit.

Paolo