Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: nSVM: TLB_CONTROL / FLUSHBYASID "fixes"

Stefan Sterz
2023-10-19T13:21:29Z

On Wed Oct 18, 2023 at 9:41 PM CEST, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Two "fixes" to play nice with running VMware Workstation on top of KVM,
> in quotes because patch 2 isn't really a fix.
>

Hey, thanks for providing these patches. Tested them here with ESXi 7,
they work like a charm!

As a sidenote regarding my tests: had to fiddle a bit with the reverted
commit as I applied them on top of the v6.2 tag, because that is still
the kernel version we use over here.

> Sean Christopherson (2):
> Revert "nSVM: Check for reserved encodings of TLB_CONTROL in nested
> VMCB"
> KVM: nSVM: Advertise support for flush-by-ASID
>
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 15 ---------------
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 437bba5ad2bba00c2056c896753a32edf80860cc
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> 2.42.0.655.g421f12c284-goog