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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gleb@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
	mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86, kvm: fix detection of KVM features when KVM and Hyper-V coexist
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:19:01 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140128221901.GA3096@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1390846290-26844-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 07:11:28PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> When KVM also presents Hyper-V features (which is useful because Windows
> behaves better), Linux guests prefer KVM because emulated leaves are at
> 0x40000000 and the native ones are at 0x40000100.
> 
> However, Linux is then not accounting for the offset when reading the
> available hypervisor features from CPUID.  Instead of looking at
> 0x40000101, it will always look at 0x40000001.
> 
> This series makes sure that features such as async page faults or steal
> time are available even if, for whatever reason, Hyper-V features are
> enabled.
> 
> As a side effect, patch 1 makes a bunch of code non inline, which also
> makes sense since it should only be called during initialization.  As 
> a result, vmlinux .text size decreases by 96 bytes.
> 
> Please review!
> 
> Paolo Bonzini (2):
>   x86, kvm: cache the base of the KVM cpuid leaves
>   x86, kvm: correctly access the KVM_CPUID_FEATURES leaf at 0x40000101
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_para.h | 33 ++++++++++++---------------------
>  arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c           | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1

Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>


      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-28 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-27 18:11 [PATCH 0/2] x86, kvm: fix detection of KVM features when KVM and Hyper-V coexist Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-27 18:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86, kvm: cache the base of the KVM cpuid leaves Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-27 18:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86, kvm: correctly access the KVM_CPUID_FEATURES leaf at 0x40000101 Paolo Bonzini
2014-01-28 22:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]

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