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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
To: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cpu: intel, amd: mask cleared cpuid features
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:10:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120724101041.GA24739@aftab.osrc.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <500E5CDF.5000504@parallels.com>

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:29:19PM +0400, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> I guess that when the more advanced features become widely-used,
> vendors will offer new MSRs and/or CPUID faulting.

And this right there is the dealbreaker:

So what are you doing for cpus which have the advanced CPUID features
leafs but there are no MSRs to turn those bits off?

You surely need some software-only solution for the migration to work,
no?

If so, why not apply that solution to your hypervisor without touching
the kernel at all?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-24 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-20 16:37 [PATCH 1/2] cpu: common: make clearcpuid option take bits list Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-20 16:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] cpu: intel, amd: mask cleared cpuid features Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-20 17:10   ` Andi Kleen
2012-07-20 17:18     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-07-25 11:51     ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-20 17:20   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-07-20 18:21     ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-20 20:19       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-07-20 20:37         ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-21 10:37   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-24  7:06     ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-24  7:48       ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-24  8:14       ` Andre Przywara
2012-07-24  8:29         ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-24 10:10           ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2012-07-24 11:09             ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-24 12:34               ` Andre Przywara
2012-07-24 12:44                 ` Alan Cox
2012-07-25 10:31                   ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-25 10:58                     ` Andre Przywara
2012-07-25 11:02                       ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-25 11:17                         ` Andre Przywara
2012-07-25 11:43                           ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-25 11:31                     ` Alan Cox
2012-07-25 11:46                       ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-25 10:31                 ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-25 10:43                   ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-25 11:39                     ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-25  0:57               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-07-25  6:58                 ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-25 14:13                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-07-25 11:49                 ` Vladimir Davydov
2012-07-24  9:50         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-24 10:32           ` Alan Cox
2012-07-24 11:04             ` Borislav Petkov

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