From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Zeng Guang <guang.zeng@intel.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>,
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>,
Jethro Beekman <jethro@fortanix.com>,
Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Robert Hu <robert.hu@intel.com>, Gao Chao <chao.gao@intel.com>,
Robert Hoo <robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86/feat_ctl: Add new VMX feature, Tertiary VM-Execution control
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:56:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20d46894-a42f-88fc-124b-9d6662c57bef@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YQHr6VvNOQclolfc@google.com>
On 29/07/21 01:44, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>> + rdmsr_safe(MSR_IA32_VMX_PROCBASED_CTLS3, &ign, &supported);
>> + c->vmx_capability[TERTIARY_CTLS_LOW] = ign;
>> + c->vmx_capability[TERTIARY_CTLS_HIGH] = supported;
> Assuming only the lower 32 bits are going to be used for the near future (next
> few years), what about defining just TERTIARY_CTLS_LOW and then doing:
>
> /*
> * Tertiary controls are 64-bit allowed-1, so unlikely other MSRs, the
> * upper bits are ignored (because they're not used, yet...).
> */
> rdmsr_safe(MSR_IA32_VMX_PROCBASED_CTLS3, &supported, &ign);
> c->vmx_capability[TERTIARY_CTLS_LOW] = supported;
>
> I.e. punt the ugliness issue down the road a few years.
>
Or use two new variables low/high instead of supported/ign.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-29 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-16 6:48 [PATCH 0/5] IPI virtualization support for VM Zeng Guang
2021-07-16 6:48 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86/feat_ctl: Add new VMX feature, Tertiary VM-Execution control Zeng Guang
2021-07-28 23:44 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-07-29 15:56 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2021-08-02 8:22 ` Zeng Guang
2021-08-02 16:20 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-07-16 6:48 ` [PATCH 2/6] KVM: VMX: Extend BUILD_CONTROLS_SHADOW macro to support 64-bit variation Zeng Guang
2021-07-16 6:48 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: VMX: Detect Tertiary VM-Execution control when setup VMCS config Zeng Guang
2021-07-29 0:03 ` Sean Christopherson
2021-08-02 6:59 ` Zeng Guang
2021-07-16 6:48 ` [PATCH 4/6] KVM: VMX: dump_vmcs() reports tertiary_exec_control field as well Zeng Guang
2021-07-16 6:48 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: x86: Support interrupt dispatch in x2APIC mode with APIC-write VM exit Zeng Guang
2021-07-16 6:48 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: VMX: enable IPI virtualization Zeng Guang
2021-07-16 9:52 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-17 3:55 ` Zeng Guang
2021-07-18 20:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-19 12:38 ` Zeng Guang
2021-07-19 13:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-20 1:07 ` Zeng Guang
2021-07-19 13:16 ` Zeng Guang
2021-07-16 9:25 ` [PATCH 0/5] IPI virtualization support for VM Wanpeng Li
2021-07-17 1:46 ` Zeng Guang
2021-07-19 7:26 ` Zeng Guang
2021-07-19 7:37 ` Wanpeng Li
2021-07-23 6:15 ` Zeng Guang
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