Re: [PATCH 2/9] KVM: x86: support XSAVES usage in the host

[Radim KrÄmÃÅ]

2014-12-04 16:57+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
> Userspace is expecting non-compacted format for KVM_GET_XSAVE, but
> struct xsave_struct might be using the compacted format.  Convert
> in order to preserve userspace ABI.
> 
> Likewise, userspace is passing non-compacted format for KVM_SET_XSAVE
> but the kernel will pass it to XRSTORS, and we need to convert back.
> 
> Fixes: f31a9f7c71691569359fa7fb8b0acaa44bce0324
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>

> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -3132,15 +3132,89 @@ static int kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_set_debugregs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> +	u64 xstate_bv = xsave->xsave_hdr.xstate_bv;

(This looks like the only change since last review.)
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