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From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Hankland <ehankland@google.com>,
	Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>,
	Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: x86: Add Intel PMU MSRs to msrs_to_save[]
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:23:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190927172332.GF25513@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a12a208-4969-e3fe-4a42-b432b91599d8@redhat.com>

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 07:19:14PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 27/09/19 19:14, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> >>
> >> Perhaps we can make all MSRs supported unconditionally if
> >> host_initiated.  For unsupported performance counters it's easy to make
> >> them return 0, and allow setting them to 0, if host_initiated 
> > I don't think we need to go that far.  Allowing any ol' MSR access seems
> > like it would cause more problems than it would solve, e.g. userspace
> > could completely botch something and never know.
> 
> Well, I didn't mean really _all_ MSRs, only those returned by
> KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST.

Ah, that makes way more sense :-)

> > For the perf MSRs, could we enumerate all arch perf MSRs that are supported
> > by hardware?  That would also be the list of MSRs that host_initiated MSR
> > accesses can touch regardless of guest support.
> 
> Yes, that is easy indeed.  Any ideas about VMX?

Can you elaborate on the problem with VMX MSRs?

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-27 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-21 18:20 [PATCH] kvm: x86: Add Intel PMU MSRs to msrs_to_save[] Jim Mattson
2019-09-06 16:48 ` Jim Mattson
     [not found]   ` <8907173e-9f27-6769-09fc-0b82c22d6352@oracle.com>
2019-09-06 20:30     ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-06 20:43       ` Krish Sadhukhan
2019-09-06 21:08         ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-16 20:43           ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-17 12:39             ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-27 13:53               ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-09-27 14:00                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-27 14:40                   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-09-27 15:19                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-27 15:26                       ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-27 15:46                         ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-09-27 15:55                           ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-27 15:59                             ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-27 16:01                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-27 15:58                           ` Xiaoyao Li
2019-09-27 16:06                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-27 16:10                               ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-27 16:32                                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-27 17:14                                   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-27 17:19                                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-27 17:23                                       ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2019-09-27 17:30                                     ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-27 17:35                                       ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-27 19:03                                         ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-27 17:22                                   ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-27 17:34                                     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-09-27 17:26                                   ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-27 16:06                             ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-27 17:36                       ` Jim Mattson
2019-09-27 17:45                         ` Sean Christopherson

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