[MODERATED] Re: [patch V10 00/10] Control knobs and Documentation 0

[Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2018, speck for Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> The following series provides the following changes:
> 
>   - Fix EPT=off handling so it avoids flushing
>   
>   - Expose proper VMX mitigation information in sysfs
> 
>   - Drops the MSR list mechanism for flush 'always' to prepare for runtime
>     control. The default flush mechanism is conditional anyway and the MSR
>     list is set up at guest init time, which is nasty to run time switch
>     especially because the static key is a global control which can be
>     flipped by an update.
> 
>   - Make the flush always/conditional static key based.
> 
>   - Serialize the kvm parameter setter function
> 
>   - Enable runtime control for the kvm parameter
> 
>   - Add the l1tf command line option. It's not run time controllable as it
>     does not make sense to have 3 knobs at runtime. For the command line
>     the combo knob setting the default is convenient
> 
>   - Documentation update
> 
> This takes the review comments into account as much as still applicable.
> 
> Thanks to Jiri for testing the lot and debugging and fixing my brainfarts!

Yup, I've been playing with it yesterday, so this is

	Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs