Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: VMX: move msr_ia32_feature_control to vcpu_vmx

Haozhong Zhang
2016-06-16T11:57:18Z

On 06/16/16 13:49, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 02:05:29PM +0800, Haozhong Zhang wrote:
> > msr_ia32_feature_control will be used for LMCE and not depend only on
> > nested anymore, so move it from struct nested_vmx to struct vcpu_vmx.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 11 ++++++-----
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> > index 57ec6a4..6b63f2d 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> > @@ -421,7 +421,6 @@ struct nested_vmx {
> > struct pi_desc *pi_desc;
> > bool pi_pending;
> > u16 posted_intr_nv;
> > - u64 msr_ia32_feature_control;
> >
> > struct hrtimer preemption_timer;
> > bool preemption_timer_expired;
> > @@ -602,6 +601,8 @@ struct vcpu_vmx {
> > bool guest_pkru_valid;
> > u32 guest_pkru;
> > u32 host_pkru;
> > +
> > + u64 msr_ia32_feature_control;
> > };
> >
> > enum segment_cache_field {
> > @@ -2907,7 +2908,7 @@ static int vmx_get_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr_info)
> > case MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL:
> > if (!nested_vmx_allowed(vcpu))
> > return 1;
> > - msr_info->data = to_vmx(vcpu)->nested.msr_ia32_feature_control;
> > + msr_info->data = to_vmx(vcpu)->msr_ia32_feature_control;
>
> Since this moves out of struct nested_vmx, that check above it:
>
> if (!nested_vmx_allowed(vcpu))
>
> should not influence it anymore, no?
>
> Ditto for the rest.
>

The same check in the set case still makes sense. I can remove the
check here and leave it in the set case.

Thanks,
Haozhong