Re: [PATCH RFC] kvm: emulate avx vmovdq

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On Tue, Aug 20, 2024, Keith Busch wrote:
> From: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Because people would like to use this (see "Link"), interpret the VEX

Please explicitly call define the use case in the changelog.  Yeah, I can follow
the link, but I shouldn't have to just to understand that this is the compiler
generating vmovdqu for its built-in memcpy().

> prefix and emulate mov instrutions accordingly. The only avx
> instructions emulated here are the aligned and unaligned mov.
> Everything else will fail as before.
> 
> This is new territory for me, so any feedback is appreciated.

Heh, this is probably new territory for everyone except possibly Paolo.  I don't
recall the last time KVM was effectively forced to add emulation for something
this gnarly.




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