Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add support for XMM fast hypercalls

[Siddharth Chandrasekaran]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 05:48:19PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 08/04/21 17:40, Siddharth Chandrasekaran wrote:
> > > > > Although the Hyper-v TLFS mentions that a guest cannot use this feature
> > > > > unless the hypervisor advertises support for it, some hypercalls which
> > > > > we plan on upstreaming in future uses them anyway.
> > > > No, please don't do this. Check the feature bit(s) before you issue
> > > > hypercalls which rely on the extended interface.
> > > Perhaps Siddharth should clarify this, but I read it as Hyper-V being
> > > buggy and using XMM arguments unconditionally.
> > The guest is at fault here as it expects Hyper-V to consume arguments
> > from XMM registers for certain hypercalls (that we are working) even if
> > we didn't expose the feature via CPUID bits.
>
> What guest is that?

It is a Windows Server 2016.



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