On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 03:42:37PM +0100, Andrew Cooper 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>
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