On 23.11.2020 14:58, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 06.11.2020 16:58, Wei Liu wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 04:56:53PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> Using max undermines the separation between default and max. For example, >>> turning off AVX512F on an MPX-capable system silently turns on MPX, >>> despite this not being part of the default policy anymore. Since the >>> information is used only for determining what to convert 'x' to (but not >>> to e.g. validate '1' settings), the effect of this change is identical >>> for guests with (suitable) "cpuid=" settings to that of the changes >>> separating default from max and then converting (e.g.) MPX from being >>> part of default to only being part of max for guests without (affected) >>> "cpuid=" settings. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> >> >> I will defer this to Andrew. > > Andrew?
Yet another one (here having been pending for nearly 5 months), and hence same thing (despite again not feeling well, albeit iirc at the time we discussed this on irc and you looked to be basically agreeing): I intend to commit this once the tree is fully open again, unless I hear otherwise. Jan
