From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org, "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 14/31] x86/fpu: Replace KVMs homebrewn FPU copy from user
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:12:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9adb43fb-182f-dffb-1fde-ae7e9610a344@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YWbz0ayrpoxbBo5U@google.com>
On 13/10/21 16:57, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>> +int fpu_copy_kvm_uabi_to_vcpu(struct fpu *fpu, const void *buf, u64 xcr0,
>>> + u32 *vpkru)
>> Right, except that there's no @vcpu in the args of that function. I
>> guess you could call it
>>
>> fpu_copy_kvm_uabi_to_buf()
>>
>> and that @buf can be
>>
>> vcpu->arch.guest_fpu
> But the existing @buf is the userspace pointer, which semantically makes sense
> because the userspace pointer is the "buffer" and the destination @fpu (and @prku)
> is vCPU state, not a buffer.
>
> That said, I also struggled with the lack of @vcpu. What about prepending vcpu_
> to fpu and to pkru? E.g.
>
> int fpu_copy_kvm_uabi_to_vcpu(struct fpu *vcpu_fpu, const void *buf, u64 xcr0,
> u32 *vcpu_pkru)
>
It doesn't matter much that the source is somehow related to a vCPU, as
long as the FPU is concerned. If anything I would even drop the "v"
from vpkru, but that's really nitpicking.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-13 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-11 23:59 [patch 00/31] x86/fpu: Preparatory cleanups for AMX support (part 1) Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-11 23:59 ` [patch 01/31] x86/fpu: Remove pointless argument from switch_fpu_finish() Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 02/31] x86/fpu: Update stale comments Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 03/31] x86/pkru: Remove useless include Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 04/31] x86/fpu: Restrict xsaves()/xrstors() to independent states Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 14:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 05/31] x86/fpu: Cleanup the on_boot_cpu clutter Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 06/31] x86/fpu: Remove pointless memset in fpu_clone() Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 07/31] x86/process: Clone FPU in copy_thread() Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 08/31] x86/fpu: Do not inherit FPU context for kernel and IO worker threads Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 09/31] x86/fpu: Do not inherit FPU context for CLONE_THREAD Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 16:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-12 18:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 19:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 10/31] x86/fpu: Cleanup xstate xcomp_bv initialization Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 11/31] x86/fpu/xstate: Provide and use for_each_xfeature() Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 16:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 12/31] x86/fpu/xstate: Mark all init only functions __init Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 13/31] x86/fpu: Move KVMs FPU swapping to FPU core Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 16:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-12 18:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 18:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 17:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-13 6:15 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-10-13 6:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-13 7:46 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-10-13 8:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-13 10:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-10-13 12:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-13 14:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-13 14:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-13 14:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-10-13 15:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-13 10:25 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-10-13 12:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-13 14:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-14 6:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-14 8:02 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-10-14 9:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-14 11:21 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-10-14 11:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-14 11:30 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-10-14 11:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-11-22 8:50 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-10-14 14:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-14 14:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-14 15:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-14 19:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-15 9:20 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-10-15 9:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-15 14:24 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-10-15 15:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-16 14:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-15 9:00 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-10-15 10:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-15 11:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-15 13:01 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-10-14 12:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-14 12:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-14 14:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-13 15:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-14 8:21 ` Liu, Jing2
2021-10-14 13:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 14/31] x86/fpu: Replace KVMs homebrewn FPU copy from user Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 17:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-13 14:57 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-10-13 15:12 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2021-10-13 15:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 17:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 15/31] x86/fpu: Rework copy_xstate_to_uabi_buf() Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 17:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 16/31] x86/fpu: Replace KVMs homebrewn FPU copy to user Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 17:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-12 17:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-12 17:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 18:40 ` [patch V2 16/31] x86/fpu: Replace KVMs home brewed " Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-13 5:34 ` [patch 16/31] x86/fpu: Replace KVMs homebrewn " Paolo Bonzini
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 17/31] x86/fpu: Mark fpu__init_prepare_fx_sw_frame() as __init Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 18/31] x86/fpu: Move context switch and exit to user inlines into sched.h Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 19/31] x86/fpu: Clean up cpu feature tests Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 20/31] x86/fpu: Make os_xrstor_booting() private Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 21/31] x86/fpu: Move os_xsave() and os_xrstor() to core Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 22/31] x86/fpu: Move legacy ASM wrappers " Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 23/31] x86/fpu: Make WARN_ON_FPU() private Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 24/31] x86/fpu: Move fpregs_restore_userregs() to core Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 17:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 25/31] x86/fpu: Move mxcsr related code " Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 26/31] x86/fpu: Move fpstate functions to api.h Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 17:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 27/31] x86/fpu: Remove internal.h dependency from fpu/signal.h Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 28/31] x86/sev: Include fpu/xcr.h Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 7:24 ` Xiaoyao Li
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 29/31] x86/fpu: Mop up the internal.h leftovers Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 30/31] x86/fpu: Replace the includes of fpu/internal.h Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 0:00 ` [patch 31/31] x86/fpu: Provide a proper function for ex_handler_fprestore() Thomas Gleixner
2021-10-12 21:15 ` [patch 00/31] x86/fpu: Preparatory cleanups for AMX support (part 1) Thomas Gleixner
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