From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752061AbbA1VBk (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:01:40 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:35325 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756586AbbA1VAg (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:00:36 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:21:27 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" Cc: Ross Zwisler , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , H Peter Anvin , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "Kani, Toshimitsu" , "Knippers, Linda" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86: Add support for the pcommit instruction Message-ID: <20150128172127.GF7569@pd.tnic> References: <1422377631-8986-1-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> <1422377631-8986-2-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> <94D0CD8314A33A4D9D801C0FE68B40295A75C517@G9W0745.americas.hpqcorp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <94D0CD8314A33A4D9D801C0FE68B40295A75C517@G9W0745.americas.hpqcorp.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:10:46PM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote: > Should this patch series also add defines for the virtual > machine control data structure changes? > > 1. Add the new VM-Execution Controls bit 21 as > SECONDARY_EXEC_PCOMMIT_EXITING 0x00200000 > to arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h. > > 2. Add the new exit reason of 64 (0x41) as > EXIT_REASON_PCOMMIT 64 > to arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h and (with a > VMX_EXIT_REASONS string) to usr/include/asm/vmx.h. > > 3. Add a kvm_vmx_exit_handler to arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c. These look like a separate patchset for kvm enablement to me. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. --