Article 5ZVVS Linux 5.19 Adds Support For XSAVEC When Running As A VM Guest

Linux 5.19 Adds Support For XSAVEC When Running As A VM Guest

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Various hypervisors expose support for the XSAVEC instruction as an XSAVE with compaction as an efficiency optimization. However, the Linux kernel doesn't currently make use of XSAVEC as an alternative to XSAVES (supervisor mode) but that is now changing with Linux 5.19...
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