>>> On 23.07.18 at 16:42, <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote:
> Because of a bug in 2010, LMSL support didn't functioned in Xen.
> 
> c/s f2c608444 noticed but avoided fixing the issue for migration reasons.  In
> addition to migration problems, changes to the segmentation logic for
> emulation would be needed before the feature could be enabled.
> 
> This feature is entirely unused by operating systems (probably owing to its
> semantics which only cover half the segment registers), and no one has
> commented on its absence from Xen.  As supporting it would involve a large
> amount of effort, it seems better to remove the code entirely.
> 
> If someone finds a valid usecase, we can resurrecting the code and
> implementing the remaining parts, but I doubt anyone will.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>



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