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So, to be useful, this interface needs to be called before an application can run XGETBV or XSAVE for the first time and caches a "bad" value. I think that means that it might not be feasible to use outside of cases where you ptrace() something and inject things before it has a chance to run any real instructions. Fundamentally, I think that makes _this_ interface pretty useless in practice. The only practical option is to have a _future_ XCR0 value set by the prctl() and then have it get made active by the kernel at execve(). IMNHO, if you haven't guessed yet, I think this whole exercise is a dead end. Just boot an identical XCR0 VM on your new hardware and do replay there. Done.