Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/14] target-i386: Implement MPX extension

2015-11-18 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 18/11/2015 10:43, Richard Henderson wrote: >> 1) pester Intel some more so that they disclose the format of the SMM >> state save area; > > They have done so, and relatively well. Section 34.4.1.1 of the > software developer's manual (I'm looking at 325462-055, June 2015). Relatively well u

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/14] target-i386: Implement MPX extension

2015-11-18 Thread Richard Henderson
On 11/17/2015 06:43 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Hi Richard, it would be nice to have these patches---or at least the XSAVE support---in 2.6. I also have a PKRU implementation for TCG, but currently I'm only implementing RDPKRU/WRPKRU because I would like to build the XSAVE support on top of your pa

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/14] target-i386: Implement MPX extension

2015-11-17 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 09/07/2015 10:17, Richard Henderson wrote: > I'm still in the process of testing this, as there's no code > written for it yet and hardware to compare against doesn't > start shipping until (probably) August. > > But in the meantime there are a number of holes that I found > in XSAVE support

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/14] target-i386: Implement MPX extension

2015-07-09 Thread Richard Henderson
I'm still in the process of testing this, as there's no code written for it yet and hardware to compare against doesn't start shipping until (probably) August. But in the meantime there are a number of holes that I found in XSAVE support that might affect KVM, and one question wrt SMM support that