All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 13/21] x86/domctl: Update PV domain cpumasks when setting cpuid policy
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 12:26:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160408162602.GS15411@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1460030246-30153-14-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 12:57:18PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> This allows PV domains with different featuresets to observe different values
> from a native cpuid instruction, on supporting hardware.
> 
> It is important to leak the host view of X2APIC, HTT and CMP_LEGACY through to
> guests, even though they could be hidden.  These flags affect how to interpret
> other cpuid leaves which are not maskable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@lists.xen.org
http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-08 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-07 11:57 [PATCH v5 00/21] x86: Improvements to cpuid handling for guests Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 01/21] xen/x86: Annotate VM applicability in featureset Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 23:01   ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 02/21] xen/x86: Calculate maximum host and guest featuresets Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 23:04   ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 03/21] xen/x86: Generate deep dependencies of features Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 23:18   ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-07 23:36     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 15:17       ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-08 15:18         ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 04/21] xen/x86: Clear dependent features when clearing a cpu cap Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 15:36   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 05/21] xen/x86: Improve disabling of features which have dependencies Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 15:04   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 06/21] xen/x86: Improvements to in-hypervisor cpuid sanity checks Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 16:10   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-08 18:06   ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 07/21] x86/cpu: Move set_cpumask() calls into c_early_init() Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 18:09   ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 08/21] x86/cpu: Sysctl and common infrastructure for levelling context switching Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 16:54   ` Daniel De Graaf
2016-04-08 16:12   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 09/21] x86/cpu: Rework AMD masking MSR setup Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 16:13   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 10/21] x86/cpu: Rework Intel masking/faulting setup Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 16:14   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 11/21] x86/cpu: Context switch cpuid masks and faulting state in context_switch() Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 16:15   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 12/21] x86/pv: Provide custom cpumasks for PV domains Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 16:17   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 13/21] x86/domctl: Update PV domain cpumasks when setting cpuid policy Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 16:26   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 14/21] xen+tools: Export maximum host and guest cpu featuresets via SYSCTL Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 16:54   ` Daniel De Graaf
2016-04-08 16:32   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 15/21] tools/libxc: Modify bitmap operations to take void pointers Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 13:00   ` Wei Liu
2016-04-08 16:34   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 16/21] tools/libxc: Use public/featureset.h for cpuid policy generation Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 16:37   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 17/21] tools/libxc: Expose the automatically generated cpu featuremask information Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 16:38   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 18/21] tools: Utility for dealing with featuresets Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 19/21] tools/libxc: Wire a featureset through to cpuid policy logic Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 20/21] tools/libxc: Use featuresets rather than guesswork Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 11:57 ` [PATCH v5 21/21] tools/libxc: Calculate xstate cpuid leaf from guest information Andrew Cooper
2016-04-07 12:58   ` Wei Liu
2016-04-08 21:00   ` Jan Beulich
2016-04-08 21:45     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-08 22:38       ` Jan Beulich

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20160408162602.GS15411@char.us.oracle.com \
    --to=konrad.wilk@oracle.com \
    --cc=andrew.cooper3@citrix.com \
    --cc=xen-devel@lists.xen.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.