Re: [PATCH v4 00/19] x86/cpu: Clean up handling of VMX features

Sean Christopherson
2019-12-21T03:44:59Z

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 03:07:55PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 05:39:57PM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Clean up a handful of interrelated warts in the kernel's handling of VMX:
> >
> > - Enable VMX in IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL during boot instead of on-demand
> > during KVM load to avoid future contention over IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL.
> >
> > - Rework VMX feature reporting so that it is accurate and up-to-date,
> > now and in the future.
> >
> > - Consolidate code across CPUs that support VMX.
>
> Ok, this is shaping up slowly to be upstream-ready, AFAICT.
>
> How are we merging the next revision, after the minor things have been
> taken care of? Through tip?
>
> Paolo?

Tip would be my preference, we'll need to rebase the SGX series on this
and tip would probably be slightly more convenient for that.