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

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Message-ID: <56E1686F.1060200@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:28:31 +0800
From:	Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: x86: disable MPX if host did not enable MPX
 XSAVE features



On 03/08/2016 07:44 PM, Paolo Bonzini 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>

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?