Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make x86 mfence and lfence illegal without SSE2

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 03:49:17PM +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While trying to use qemu -cpu pentium3 to test for incorrect uses of certain
> SSE2 instructions, I found that QEMU allowed the mfence and lfence
> instructions to be executed even though Pentium 3 doesn't support them.
> 
> According to the processor specs (and experience on a real Pentium 3), these
> instructions are only available with SSE2, but QEMU is checking for SSE.  The
> check for the related sfence instruction is correct (it works with SSE).
> 
> This trival patch fixes the test:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Simmons <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to the trivial patches tree:
http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/stefanha.git/shortlog/refs/heads/trivial-patches

Stefan