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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] KVM: VMX: Allow direct access to
 MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 13:19:21 -0500
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 06:05:54PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 12:53 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > .snip..
> > >=20
> > > @@ -1913,6 +1914,29 @@ static void update_exception_bitmap(struct
> > > kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > > =A0}
> > > =A0
> > > =A0/*
> > > + * Check if MSR is intercepted for currently loaded MSR bitmap.
> > > + */
> > > +static bool msr_write_intercepted(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr)
> > > +{
> > > +	unsigned long *msr_bitmap;
> > > +	int f =3D sizeof(unsigned long);
> >
> > unsigned int
>=20
> $ grep -n 'f =3D sizeof' vmx.c
> 1934:	int f =3D sizeof(unsigned long);
> 5013:	int f =3D sizeof(unsigned long);
> 5048:	int f =3D sizeof(unsigned long);
> 5097:	int f =3D sizeof(unsigned long);
>=20
> It sucks enough that we're doing this stuff repeatedly, and it's a
> prime candidate for cleaning up, but I wasn't going to send Karim off
> to bikeshed that today. Let's at least keep it consistent.

Sure.