From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, linmiaohe <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Use wrapper macro ~RMODE_GUEST_OWNED_EFLAGS_BITS directly
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 10:44:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgiles16.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e3f7ff0-0159-98e8-ba21-8806c3a14820@redhat.com>
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> On 06/03/20 03:17, linmiaohe wrote:
>> Define a macro RMODE_HOST_OWNED_EFLAGS_BITS for (X86_EFLAGS_IOPL |
>> X86_EFLAGS_VM) as suggested by Vitaly seems a good way to fix this ?
>> Thanks.
>
> No, what if a host-owned flag was zero? I'd just leave it as is.
>
I'm not saying my suggestion was a good idea but honestly I'm failing to
wrap my head around this. The suggested 'RMODE_HOST_OWNED_EFLAGS_BITS'
would just be a define for (X86_EFLAGS_IOPL | X86_EFLAGS_VM) so
technically the patch would just be nop, no?
--
Vitaly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-06 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-06 2:17 [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Use wrapper macro ~RMODE_GUEST_OWNED_EFLAGS_BITS directly linmiaohe
2020-03-06 5:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-06 9:44 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2020-03-06 10:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-06 10:15 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
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2020-03-06 2:11 linmiaohe
2020-03-05 2:35 linmiaohe
2020-03-05 10:08 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-03-05 11:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
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