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2011 May 18
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Re: [PATCH] x86: clear CPUID output of leaf 0xd for Dom0 when xs
...function and return other information besides that XSAVEOPT, which would then be wiped out by the fall-through code. I''m thinking something like this. Let me know if I have misunderstood something. + case 0xd: /* XSAVE */ + if (!xsave_enabled(current)) + __clear_bit(X86_FEATURE_XSAVEOPT % 32, &a); + break; case 5: /* MONITOR/MWAIT */ Roger R. Cruz ---------------------- Linux starting with 2.6.36 uses the XSAVEOPT instruction and has certain code paths that look only at the feature bit reported through CPUID leaf 0xd sub-leaf 1 (i.e. without qualifying the check...