Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 3/3] Revert "libxc: create an initial FPU state for HVM guests"

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 17:30 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 06:24:40PM +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > This reverts commit d64dbbcc7c9934a46126c59d78536235908377ad.
> > 
> > Xen always set the FPU as initialized when loading a HVM context, so
> > libxc
> > has to provide a valid FPU context when setting the CPU registers.
> > 
> > This is a stop-gap measure in order to unblock OSSTest Windows 7
> > failures
> > while a proper fix for the HVM CPU save/restore is being worked on.
> 
> I think it is better to say in the commit message that a proper fix is
> in place so we can revert the stop-gap patch instead of copying the
> commit message from the patch this is being reverted.
> 
> Assuming I'm right about a proper fix will be committed before this
> patch and the commit message fixed:

Roger, Is the "proper fix" in tree now? If so then please can we get an
updated commit message which references that as Wei suggests.

I can update the message upon commit if you just want to provide the words,
or feel free to resend of course.

Ian.


> 
> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>

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