Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] x86/cpu: KVM: Clean up PAT and VMX macros

Sean Christopherson
2024-08-23T23:54:41Z

On Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:19:08 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> The primary goal of this series is to clean up the VMX MSR macros and their
> usage in KVM.
>
> The first half of the series touches memtype code that (obviously) impacts
> areas well outside of KVM, in order to address several warts:
>
> (a) KVM is defining VMX specific macros for the architectural memtypes
> (b) the PAT and MTRR code define similar, yet different macros
> (c) that the PAT code not only has macros for the types (well, enums),
> it also has macros for encoding the entire PAT MSR that can be used
> by KVM.
>
> [...]

Applied to kvm-x86 pat_vmx_msrs. I won't put anything else in this branch, on
the off chance someone needs to pull in the PAT changes for something else.

[01/10] x86/cpu: KVM: Add common defines for architectural memory types (PAT, MTRRs, etc.)
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/e7e80b66fb24
[02/10] x86/cpu: KVM: Move macro to encode PAT value to common header
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/beb2e446046f
[03/10] KVM: x86: Stuff vCPU's PAT with default value at RESET, not creation
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/b6717d35d859
[04/10] KVM: VMX: Move MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC bit defines to asm/vmx.h
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/d7bfc9ffd580
[05/10] KVM: VMX: Track CPU's MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC as a single 64-bit value
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/9df398ff7d2a
[06/10] KVM: nVMX: Use macros and #defines in vmx_restore_vmx_basic()
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/c97b106fa8aa
[07/10] KVM: nVMX: Add a helper to encode VMCS info in MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/92e648042c23
[08/10] KVM VMX: Move MSR_IA32_VMX_MISC bit defines to asm/vmx.h
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/dc1e67f70f6d
[09/10] KVM: VMX: Open code VMX preemption timer rate mask in its accessor
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/8f56b14e9fa0
[10/10] KVM: nVMX: Use macros and #defines in vmx_restore_vmx_misc()
https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/566975f6ecd8

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