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From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Deflect unknown MSR accesses to user space
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 10:23:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2n2log7.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALMp9eQ3OxhQZYiHPiebX=KyvjWQgxQEO-owjSoxgPKsOMRvjw@mail.gmail.com>

Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 5:41 AM Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> wrote:
>>

...

>> While it does feel a bit overengineered, it would solve the problem that
>> we're turning in-KVM handled MSRs into an ABI.
>
> It seems unlikely that userspace is going to know what to do with a
> large number of MSRs. I suspect that a small enumerated list will
> suffice.

The list can also be 'wildcarded', i.e. 
{
 u32 index;
 u32 mask;
 ...
}

to make it really short.

-- 
Vitaly


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-29  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-28  0:44 [PATCH] KVM: x86: Deflect unknown MSR accesses to user space Alexander Graf
2020-07-28  8:15 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-07-28 12:41   ` Alexander Graf
2020-07-28 17:13     ` Jim Mattson
2020-07-29  8:23       ` Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2020-07-29  9:09         ` Alexander Graf
2020-07-29  9:22           ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-07-29  9:34             ` Alexander Graf
2020-07-29  9:06       ` Alexander Graf
2020-07-29 18:27         ` Jim Mattson
2020-07-29 20:28           ` Alexander Graf
2020-07-29 20:37             ` Jim Mattson
2020-07-29 20:45               ` Alexander Graf
2020-07-29 20:49                 ` Jim Mattson

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