From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] KVM: x86: Add dedicated emulator helper for grabbing CPUID.maxphyaddr
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 12:47:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200304204740.GG21662@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ddde497-9c71-d64c-df20-3b4439664336@redhat.com>
On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 11:14:22AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 03/03/20 10:48, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>
> >> I don't think this is a particularly useful change. Yes, it's not
> >> intuitive but is it more than a matter of documentation (and possibly
> >> moving the check_cr_write snippet into a separate function)?
> >
> > Besides the non obvious return value of the current function, this
> > approach also avoids leaving cpuid traces for querying maxphyaddr, which
> > is also not very intuitive IMHO.
>
> There are already other cases where we leave CPUID traces. We can just
> stop tracing if check_limit (which should be renamed to from_guest) is
> true; there are other internal cases which call ctxt->ops->get_cpuid,
> such as vendor_intel, and those should also use check_limit==true and
> check the return value of ctxt->ops->get_cpuid.
No, the vendor checks that use get_cpuid() shouldn't do check_limit=true,
they're looking for an exact match on the vendor.
Not that it matters. @check_limit only comes into play on a vendor check
if CPUID.0 doesn't exist, and @check_limit only effects the output if
CPUID.0 _does_ exist. I.e. the output for CPUID.0 is unaffected by
@check_limit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-04 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-02 19:57 [PATCH 0/6] KVM: x86: CPUID emulation and tracing fixes Sean Christopherson
2020-03-02 19:57 ` [PATCH 1/6] KVM: x86: Fix tracing of CPUID.function when function is out-of-range Sean Christopherson
2020-03-02 20:26 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-03-02 20:49 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-02 20:59 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-03-03 2:27 ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-03 3:45 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-03 4:02 ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-03 4:12 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-03 4:30 ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-03 2:50 ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-03 4:08 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-03 4:16 ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-03-02 19:57 ` [PATCH 2/6] KVM: x86: Fix CPUID range check for Centaur and Hypervisor ranges Sean Christopherson
2020-03-02 21:59 ` Jim Mattson
2020-03-03 0:57 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-03 3:25 ` Jim Mattson
2020-03-03 4:25 ` Jim Mattson
2020-03-03 4:58 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-03 17:42 ` Jim Mattson
2020-03-03 18:01 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-03 18:08 ` Jim Mattson
2020-03-04 11:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-02 19:57 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: x86: Add dedicated emulator helper for grabbing CPUID.maxphyaddr Sean Christopherson
2020-03-03 8:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-03 9:48 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-03-03 10:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-04 20:47 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2020-03-03 16:28 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-03 17:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-02 19:57 ` [PATCH 4/6] KVM: x86: Drop return value from kvm_cpuid() Sean Christopherson
2020-03-02 19:57 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: x86: Rename "found" variable in kvm_cpuid() to "exact_entry_exists" Sean Christopherson
2020-03-02 20:20 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-03-02 20:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-02 20:48 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-03-02 19:57 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: x86: Add requested index to the CPUID tracepoint Sean Christopherson
2020-03-07 9:48 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-03-10 4:00 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-03 8:48 ` [PATCH 0/6] KVM: x86: CPUID emulation and tracing fixes Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-03 16:38 ` Sean Christopherson
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