On 02/04/2015 04:17, Bandan Das wrote:
>> > x86 architecture defines differences between the reset and INIT sequences.
>> > INIT does not initialize the FPU (including MMX, XMM, YMM, etc.), TSC, PMU,
>> > MSRs (in general), MTRRs machine-check, APIC ID, APIC arbitration ID and 
>> > BSP.
>> >
>> > EFER is supposed NOT to be reset according to the SDM, but leaving the LMA 
>> > and
>> > LME untouched causes failed VM-entry.  Therefore we reset EFER (although 
>> > it is
>> > unclear whether the rest of EFER bits should be reset).
> Thanks! This was actually in my todo list. #INIT and #RESET are actually 
> separate pins
> on the processor. So, shouldn't we differentiate between the two too by having
> (*vcpu_init) and (*vcpu_reset) separate ?

I think a bool argument is good enough.  QEMU has different functions,
and init ends up doing save/reset/restore which is pretty ugly.

Paolo
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