From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>,
Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
Shan Kang <shan.kang@intel.com>, Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com>,
Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 01/10] x86/cpu: KVM: Add common defines for architectural memory types (PAT, MTRRs, etc.)
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 17:34:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bk1tn6ks.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240605231918.2915961-2-seanjc@google.com>
On Wed, Jun 05 2024 at 16:19, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Add defines for the architectural memory types that can be shoved into
> various MSRs and registers, e.g. MTRRs, PAT, VMX capabilities MSRs, EPTPs,
> etc. While most MSRs/registers support only a subset of all memory types,
> the values themselves are architectural and identical across all users.
>
> Leave the goofy MTRR_TYPE_* definitions as-is since they are in a uapi
> header, but add compile-time assertions to connect the dots (and sanity
> check that the msr-index.h values didn't get fat-fingered).
>
> Keep the VMX_EPTP_MT_* defines so that it's slightly more obvious that the
> EPTP holds a single memory type in 3 of its 64 bits; those bits just
> happen to be 2:0, i.e. don't need to be shifted.
>
> Opportunistically use X86_MEMTYPE_WB instead of an open coded '6' in
> setup_vmcs_config().
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-15 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-05 23:19 [PATCH v8 00/10] x86/cpu: KVM: Clean up PAT and VMX macros Sean Christopherson
2024-06-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v8 01/10] x86/cpu: KVM: Add common defines for architectural memory types (PAT, MTRRs, etc.) Sean Christopherson
2024-06-10 10:31 ` Huang, Kai
2024-08-15 15:34 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2024-06-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v8 02/10] x86/cpu: KVM: Move macro to encode PAT value to common header Sean Christopherson
2024-08-15 15:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2024-06-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v8 03/10] KVM: x86: Stuff vCPU's PAT with default value at RESET, not creation Sean Christopherson
2024-06-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v8 04/10] KVM: VMX: Move MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC bit defines to asm/vmx.h Sean Christopherson
2024-06-12 1:49 ` Xiaoyao Li
2024-06-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v8 05/10] KVM: VMX: Track CPU's MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC as a single 64-bit value Sean Christopherson
2024-06-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v8 06/10] KVM: nVMX: Use macros and #defines in vmx_restore_vmx_basic() Sean Christopherson
2024-06-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v8 07/10] KVM: nVMX: Add a helper to encode VMCS info in MSR_IA32_VMX_BASIC Sean Christopherson
2024-06-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v8 08/10] KVM VMX: Move MSR_IA32_VMX_MISC bit defines to asm/vmx.h Sean Christopherson
2024-06-12 1:53 ` Xiaoyao Li
2024-06-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v8 09/10] KVM: VMX: Open code VMX preemption timer rate mask in its accessor Sean Christopherson
2024-06-12 1:54 ` Xiaoyao Li
2024-06-05 23:19 ` [PATCH v8 10/10] KVM: nVMX: Use macros and #defines in vmx_restore_vmx_misc() Sean Christopherson
2024-08-15 15:23 ` [PATCH v8 00/10] x86/cpu: KVM: Clean up PAT and VMX macros Sean Christopherson
2024-08-23 23:47 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-08-24 9:41 ` Huang, Kai
2024-08-26 16:21 ` Sean Christopherson
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