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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: "Yang, Sheng" <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Move VMX MSRs to msr-index.h
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:30:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C7D9F7.4020506@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809101844.16091.sheng.yang@intel.com>

Yang, Sheng wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 September 2008 21:47:03 Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> Sheng Yang wrote:
>>     
>>> They are hardware specific MSRs, and we would use them in virtualization
>>> feature detection later.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -
>>> -#define MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL                0x3a
>>>  #define MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL_LOCKED         0x1
>>>  #define MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL_VMXON_ENABLED  0x
>>>       
>> Might as well move these two bitmask definitions.
>>     
>
> Um... I think it's better to leave them here, for the MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL 
> is a MSR which can be put into msr-index.h, but the others are only bits of 
> MSR...
>   

The EFER bits are in msr-index.h, and I think the msr index in one file 
and the bits in another detract from clarity.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-10 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-08 10:42 [RFC][PATCH 0/2] x86: Add "virt flags" Sheng Yang
2008-09-08 10:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: Move VMX MSRs to msr-index.h Sheng Yang
2008-09-09 13:47   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 10:44     ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-10 14:30       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-09-11  1:56         ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-08 10:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: Add "virt flags" in /proc/cpuinfo Sheng Yang
2008-09-08 14:04 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/2] x86: Add "virt flags" Andi Kleen
2008-09-08 14:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-08 15:30   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 17:17     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-09  3:32       ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-09  6:54 [PATCH 0/2] Extend "flags" to contain HW virtualization info Sheng Yang
2008-09-09  6:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: Move VMX MSRs to msr-index.h Sheng Yang

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