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From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"Vitaly Kuznetsov" <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	"Jim Mattson" <jmattson@google.com>,
	"Joerg Roedel" <joro@8bytes.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: VMX: Some minor refactor of MSR bitmap
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:52:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191018195206.GG26319@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f718d52f-690c-7595-2c18-9110b165058f@intel.com>

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 02:39:57AM +0800, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
> On 10/19/2019 1:27 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> >>@@ -6745,22 +6762,6 @@ static struct kvm_vcpu *vmx_create_vcpu(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int id)
> >>  	if (err < 0)
> >>  		goto free_msrs;
> >>-	msr_bitmap = vmx->vmcs01.msr_bitmap;
> >>-	vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(msr_bitmap, MSR_IA32_TSC, MSR_TYPE_R);
> >>-	vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(msr_bitmap, MSR_FS_BASE, MSR_TYPE_RW);
> >>-	vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(msr_bitmap, MSR_GS_BASE, MSR_TYPE_RW);
> >>-	vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(msr_bitmap, MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, MSR_TYPE_RW);
> >>-	vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(msr_bitmap, MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS, MSR_TYPE_RW);
> >>-	vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(msr_bitmap, MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP, MSR_TYPE_RW);
> >>-	vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(msr_bitmap, MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP, MSR_TYPE_RW);
> >>-	if (kvm_cstate_in_guest(kvm)) {
> >>-		vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(msr_bitmap, MSR_CORE_C1_RES, MSR_TYPE_R);
> >>-		vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(msr_bitmap, MSR_CORE_C3_RESIDENCY, MSR_TYPE_R);
> >>-		vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(msr_bitmap, MSR_CORE_C6_RESIDENCY, MSR_TYPE_R);
> >>-		vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(msr_bitmap, MSR_CORE_C7_RESIDENCY, MSR_TYPE_R);
> >>-	}
> >>-	vmx->msr_bitmap_mode = 0;
> >
> >Keep this code here to be consistent with the previous change that moved
> >the guest_msrs intialization *out* of the VMCS specific function.  Both
> >are collateral pages that are not directly part of the VMCS.
> >
> 
> OK. Then this patch is unnecessary too.

I'd keep the change to skip this code if the CPU doesn't have msr bitmaps.
Performance wise it may be largely irrelevant, but it's a good change from
a readability perspective.

> 
> >I'd be tempted to use a goto to skip the code, the line length is bad
> >enough as it is, e.g.:
> >
> >	if (!cpu_has_vmx_msr_bitmap())
> >		goto skip_msr_bitmap;
> >
> >	vmx->msr_bitmap_mode = 0;
> >skip_msr_bitmap:
> >
> >>-
> >>  	vmx->loaded_vmcs = &vmx->vmcs01;
> >>  	cpu = get_cpu();
> >>  	vmx_vcpu_load(&vmx->vcpu, cpu);
> >>-- 
> >>2.19.1
> >>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-18 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-18  9:37 [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: VMX: Some refactor of VMX vmcs and msr bitmap Xiaoyao Li
2019-10-18  9:37 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: VMX: Move vmcs related resetting out of vmx_vcpu_reset() Xiaoyao Li
2019-10-18 16:57   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18 18:34     ` Xiaoyao Li
2019-10-18  9:37 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: VMX: Rename {vmx,nested_vmx}_vcpu_setup() and minor cleanup Xiaoyao Li
2019-10-18 17:09   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18 18:38     ` Xiaoyao Li
2019-10-18  9:37 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: VMX: Some minor refactor of MSR bitmap Xiaoyao Li
2019-10-18 17:27   ` Sean Christopherson
2019-10-18 18:39     ` Xiaoyao Li
2019-10-18 19:52       ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2019-10-19  1:28     ` Xiaoyao Li

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