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From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
To: "Graf (AWS), Alexander" <graf@amazon.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	"Raslan, KarimAllah" <karahmed@amazon.de>,
	Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis@google.com>,
	kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Allow user space to restrict and augment MSR emulation
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:09:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALMp9eS5+mV2SC-v4gusocrWtXpm-QzGoOTDGhFS9NEmuVNTDw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B0FD5408-E2C1-444C-AFCE-7C622EA75F66@amazon.de>

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 2:46 PM Graf (AWS), Alexander <graf@amazon.de> wrote:

> Special MSRs like EFER also irritate me a bit. We can't really trap on them - most code paths just know they're handled in kernel. Maybe I'll add some sanity checks as well...

Why can't we intercept EFER?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-19 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-03 21:14 [PATCH v4 0/3] Allow user space to restrict and augment MSR emulation Alexander Graf
2020-08-03 21:14 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] KVM: x86: Deflect unknown MSR accesses to user space Alexander Graf
2020-08-03 21:14 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] KVM: x86: Introduce allow list for MSR emulation Alexander Graf
2020-08-19 22:49   ` Jim Mattson
2020-09-01 19:52     ` Alexander Graf
2020-08-03 21:14 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: selftests: Add test for user space MSR handling Alexander Graf
2020-08-19 21:25 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Allow user space to restrict and augment MSR emulation Jim Mattson
2020-08-19 21:46   ` Graf (AWS), Alexander
2020-08-19 22:09     ` Jim Mattson [this message]
2020-08-20  2:47       ` Jim Mattson

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