From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kvm: x86: emulate monitor and mwait instructions as nop
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 18:34:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <538F4A7C.7070202@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <538F30BD.5000501@suse.de>
Il 04/06/2014 16:44, Alexander Graf ha scritto:
>
>
>> Obviously, if you really like the current behavior better you can
>> always reject whatever patch I'll come up with, but I'd like to at
>> least try and see what it would look like :)
>
> I think it's perfectly fine to leave mwait always implemented as NOP -
> it's valid behavior.
>
> As for the CPUID exposure, that should be a pure QEMU thing. If
> overriding CPUID bits the kernel mask tells us doesn't work today, we
> should just make it possible :).
That should be the purpose of KVM_GET_EMULATED_CPUID, so MWAIT could be
added in __do_cpuid_ent_emulated. However, the corresponding QEMU
patches were never included. Borislav, can you refresh them?
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-04 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-07 20:52 [PATCH v2] kvm: x86: emulate monitor and mwait instructions as nop Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-02 19:25 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-02 19:48 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-02 20:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-02 20:35 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-02 20:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-02 21:01 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-03 1:55 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-02 20:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-03 9:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-03 14:21 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-03 15:37 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-03 19:07 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-10 10:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-04 14:39 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-04 14:44 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-04 15:05 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-04 15:09 ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-04 17:07 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-04 19:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-04 19:24 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-04 19:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-04 16:34 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-06-04 19:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-04 19:33 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-04 19:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-06-04 19:12 ` Nadav Amit
2014-06-04 19:43 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-04 20:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-06-05 14:40 ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-06-05 20:59 ` Eric Northup
2014-06-05 21:19 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
[not found] <46EF8587-E226-44C5-930A-49E4F7FBBC82@gmail.com>
2014-06-04 20:01 ` Nadav Amit
2014-06-04 20:11 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2014-06-04 20:55 ` Nadav Amit
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