From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B584C433EF for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0245C60F46 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:59:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233942AbhI0LBK (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:01:10 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:36454 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233906AbhI0LBI (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:01:08 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de (mail.skyhub.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:190:11c2::b:1457]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E34C3C061575; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 03:59:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zn.tnic (p200300ec2f088a001ce91a9f1eb42005.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:ec:2f08:8a00:1ce9:1a9f:1eb4:2005]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id 223971EC05A1; Mon, 27 Sep 2021 12:59:25 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=dkim; t=1632740365; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=DtmAu6IdCf7DA6yalrNpK/1g3x01UkY0+ydrL5s2WoY=; b=dLIzuWxuUDzAMTMJB4QLoawI8xTKtzhkqOhmX1x0Aw21lVIbB4wqpwc2+wAbQraSVyIe0l QbPAdfhE/JZkOj6wr12+6QsLnLxdInC+ITZnspx4BxkYZSjlwXcSpgxv/f4xf5SryL3L/a OujVWuff/az7EGYuwDriPA2D1thDAbA= Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 12:59:24 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Babu Moger Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, seanjc@google.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, wanpengli@tencent.com, jmattson@google.com, joro@8bytes.org, tony.luck@intel.com, peterz@infradead.org, kyung.min.park@intel.com, wei.huang2@amd.com, jgross@suse.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Expose Predictive Store Forwarding Disable Message-ID: References: <163244601049.30292.5855870305350227855.stgit@bmoger-ubuntu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <163244601049.30292.5855870305350227855.stgit@bmoger-ubuntu> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 08:15:28PM -0500, Babu Moger wrote: > Linux kernel does not have the interface to enable/disable PSFD yet. Plan > here is to expose the PSFD technology to KVM so that the guest kernel can > make use of it if they wish to. Why should the guest kernel expose it if we said that for now we want to disable it with the SSBD control? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette