Quoting Du, Changbin (2017-12-21 09:52:16) > Hi Chris, > Our QA reported a problem caused by movntdqa instructions. Currently, the KVM > hypervisor doesn't support VEX-prefix instructions emulation. If users > passthrough > a GPU to guest with vfio option 'x-no-mmap=on', then all access to the BARs > will > be trapped and emulated. The KVM hypervisor would raise an inertal error to > qemu > which cause the guest killed. (Since 'movntdqa' ins is not supported.) > > One possible solution is that disable this optimization at > i915_memcpy_init_early. > This require us to identify the CPUID to check if it is running in guest mode.
But do note we are already checking the CPUID/cpuflags for support; is the hv not correcting them? -Chris _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
