From: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: svm: report MSR_IA32_MCG_EXT_CTL as unsupported
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 21:06:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181220200630.GC25497@flask> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181219110613.24459-1-vkuznets@redhat.com>
2018-12-19 12:06+0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov:
> AMD doesn't seem to implement MSR_IA32_MCG_EXT_CTL and svm code in kvm
> knows nothing about it, however, this MSR is among emulated_msrs and
> thus returned with KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST. The consequent KVM_GET_MSRS,
> of course, fails.
>
> Report the MSR as unsupported to not confuse userspace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> index 2acb42b74a51..dfdf7d0b7f88 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> @@ -5845,6 +5845,13 @@ static bool svm_cpu_has_accelerated_tpr(void)
>
> static bool svm_has_emulated_msr(int index)
> {
> + switch (index) {
> + case MSR_IA32_MCG_EXT_CTL:
> + return false;
> + default:
> + break;
Queued, thanks.
Btw, I would prefer this without the
default: break;
as I don't think we'll ever add something there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-20 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-19 11:06 [PATCH] KVM: x86: svm: report MSR_IA32_MCG_EXT_CTL as unsupported Vitaly Kuznetsov
2018-12-20 20:06 ` Radim Krčmář [this message]
2018-12-21 10:06 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2018-12-21 11:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
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