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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Tao Xu <tao3.xu@intel.com>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com, corbet@lwn.net,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de,
	hpa@zytor.com, sean.j.christopherson@intel.com, x86@kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jingqi.liu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: x86: add support for user wait instructions
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 12:30:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190527103003.GX2623@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190524075637.29496-2-tao3.xu@intel.com>

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 03:56:35PM +0800, Tao Xu wrote:
> This patch adds support for UMONITOR, UMWAIT and TPAUSE instructions
> in kvm, and by default dont't expose it to kvm and provide a capability
> to enable it.

I'm thinking this should be conditional on the guest being a 1:1 guest,
and I also seem to remember we have bits for that already -- they were
used to disable paravirt spinlocks for example.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-27 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-24  7:56 [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: x86: Enable user wait instructions Tao Xu
2019-05-24  7:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: x86: add support for " Tao Xu
2019-05-27 10:30   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-05-28  5:11     ` Tao Xu
2019-05-28  6:11       ` Wanpeng Li
2019-05-28  7:19         ` Tao Xu
2019-05-29  1:26           ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-29  1:25     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-29  1:24   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-29  2:05     ` Tao Xu
2019-05-29  2:38       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-29  3:12         ` Tao Xu
2019-05-24  7:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: vmx: Emulate MSR IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL Tao Xu
2019-05-29  1:29   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-29  1:38     ` Tao Xu
2019-05-24  7:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: vmx: handle vm-exit for UMWAIT and TPAUSE Tao Xu
2019-05-29  1:28   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-29  2:25     ` Tao Xu
2019-05-29  2:39       ` Paolo Bonzini

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