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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Chang Seok Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/entry/64: Disallow RDPID in paranoid entry if KVM is enabled
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 11:48:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200821094802.GG12181@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1442e559-dde4-70f6-85ac-58109cf81c16@redhat.com>

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 11:44:33AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> It's not like we grab MSRs every day.  The user-return notifier restores
> 6 MSRs (7 on very old processors).  The last two that were added were
> MSR_TSC_AUX itself in 2009 (!) and MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL last year.

What about "If it is a shared resource, there better be an agreement
about sharing it." is not clear?

It doesn't matter how many or which resources - there needs to be a
contract for shared use so that shared use is possible. It is that
simple.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-21  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-21  2:50 [PATCH] x86/entry/64: Disallow RDPID in paranoid entry if KVM is enabled Sean Christopherson
2020-08-21  7:24 ` peterz
2020-08-21  7:44   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-08-21  7:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-08-21  8:09   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-21  8:16     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-08-21  9:05       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-21  9:22         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-08-21  9:44           ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-21  9:48             ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2020-08-21 10:07               ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-22 16:42                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-16 16:54                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-21  9:28     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-21  9:37       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-21 19:55       ` hpa
2020-08-21 20:02         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-08-21  8:56 ` kernel test robot
2020-08-21 10:28 ` kernel test robot

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