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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:02:58 +0100
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On 11/03/2016 20:06, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This adds paravirt hooks for unsafe MSR access.  On native, they
> call native_{read,write}_msr.  On Xen, they use
> xen_{read,write}_msr_safe.
> 
> Nothing uses them yet for ease of bisection.  The next patch will
> use them in rdmsrl, wrmsrl, etc.
> 
> I intentionally didn't make them OOPS on #GP on Xen.  I think that
> should be done separately by the Xen maintainers.

Please do the same for KVM.

Paolo