linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86 emulator: emulate MOVNTDQ

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Message-ID: <53C04BDB.1080707@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2014 22:40:59 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	Eric Northup <digitaleric@...gle.com>
CC:	KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86 emulator: emulate MOVNTDQ

Il 11/07/2014 22:05, Alex Williamson ha scritto:
> Which will return 'true' for this whether I specify Aligned or not.  If
> the standard convention is to make it explicit, I'm happy to add the
> extra flag, but I think we already #GP on unaligned as implemented here.
> Thanks,

We should still specify Aligned if the corresponding AVX instruction 
requires an aligned operand.  ISTR that this is not the case for 
MOVNTDQ, so your patch is correct.  I'll check the SDM more carefully 
next Monday.

Paolo
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