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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] KVM: VMX: Add instruction rdtscp support for guest
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:39:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B2A0A5A.60708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1261042392-32426-1-git-send-email-sheng@linux.intel.com>

On 12/17/2009 11:33 AM, Sheng Yang wrote:
> Before enabling, execution of "rdtscp" in guest would result in #UD.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang<sheng@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>
> Reflect guest CPUID on vmcs fields as well, but it involved some more code
> which would only executed once... Do we need a callback there for post-"cpuid
> setting"?
>    

I guess we do need a callback.

> -		/* Otherwise falls through to kvm_set_msr_common */
> +		ret = kvm_set_msr_common(vcpu, msr_index, data);
> +		break;
> +	case MSR_TSC_AUX:
> +		if (!vcpu->arch.cpuid_rdtscp_enabled || !vmx_rdtscp_supported())
> +			return 1;
> +		/* Check reserved bit */
> +		if ((data&  0xffff0000) != 0)
> +			return 1;
>    

It's 0xffffffff00000000...

> @@ -913,6 +926,9 @@ static void setup_msrs(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
>   		index = __find_msr_index(vmx, MSR_CSTAR);
>   		if (index>= 0)
>   			move_msr_up(vmx, index, save_nmsrs++);
> +		index = __find_msr_index(vmx, MSR_TSC_AUX);
> +		if (index>= 0)
> +			move_msr_up(vmx, index, save_nmsrs++);
>    

Only do this if rdtscp is enabled!

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-17 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-16  5:48 [PATCH 0/4] Add support for RDTSCP in VMX Sheng Yang
2009-12-16  5:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: VMX: Remove redundant variable Sheng Yang
2009-12-16  5:48 ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: Extended shared_msr_global to per CPU Sheng Yang
2009-12-16  9:21   ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-17  9:32     ` Sheng Yang
2009-12-17 10:32       ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-17 15:01         ` Sheng Yang
2009-12-17 15:06           ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-16  5:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86: Add IA32_TSC_AUX MSR Sheng Yang
2009-12-16  5:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] KVM: VMX: Add instruction rdtscp support for guest Sheng Yang
2009-12-16  9:47   ` Avi Kivity
2009-12-17  9:33     ` Sheng Yang
2009-12-17 10:39       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-12-17 14:52         ` Sheng Yang

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