From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com,
ashok.raj@intel.com, dave.hansen@intel.com,
yi.y.sun@linux.intel.com, youquan.song@linux.intel.com,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/24] KVM: nVMX: Eliminate vmcs02 pool
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:25:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180425142524.GA25610@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1524021512-24022-16-git-send-email-youquan.song@intel.com>
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:18:23AM +0800, Youquan Song wrote:
> From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
>
> (cherry picked from commit de3a0021a60635de96aa92713c1a31a96747d72c)
>
> The potential performance advantages of a vmcs02 pool have never been
> realized. To simplify the code, eliminate the pool. Instead, a single
> vmcs02 is allocated per VCPU when the VCPU enters VMX operation.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # prereq for Spectre mitigation
> Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ameya More <ameya.more@oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Yi Sun <yi.y.sun@linux.intel.com> [v4.4 backport]
>
> Conflicts:
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
What are these two lines doing here? That implies this isn't a "clean"
backport :(
Please fix up...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-25 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-18 3:18 [PATCH 00/24] Backport Speculation Control support for 4.4 Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 01/24] x86/cpufeatures: Add CPUID_7_EDX CPUID leaf Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 02/24] x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel feature bits for Speculation Control Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 03/24] x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD " Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 04/24] x86/msr: Add definitions for new speculation control MSRs Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 05/24] x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on CPUs which are not vulnerable to Meltdown Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 06/24] x86/cpufeature: Blacklist SPEC_CTRL/PRED_CMD on early Spectre v2 microcodes Youquan Song
2018-04-18 11:01 ` Jack Wang
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 07/24] x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 08/24] x86/cpufeatures: Clean up Spectre v2 related CPUID flags Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 09/24] x86/cpuid: Fix up "virtual" IBRS/IBPB/STIBP feature bits on Intel Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 10/24] x86/speculation: Add <asm/msr-index.h> dependency Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 11/24] x86/mm: Give each mm TLB flush generation a unique ID Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 12/24] x86/speculation: Use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier in context switch Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 13/24] x86/speculation: Use IBRS if available before calling into firmware Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 14/24] x86/speculation: Move firmware_restrict_branch_speculation_*() from C to CPP Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 15/24] KVM: nVMX: Eliminate vmcs02 pool Youquan Song
2018-04-25 14:25 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 16/24] KVM: VMX: introduce alloc_loaded_vmcs Youquan Song
2018-04-25 14:25 ` Greg KH
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 17/24] KVM: VMX: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU Youquan Song
2018-04-25 14:25 ` Greg KH
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 18/24] KVM/x86: Add IBPB support Youquan Song
2018-04-25 14:25 ` Greg KH
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 19/24] KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES Youquan Song
2018-04-25 14:26 ` Greg KH
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 20/24] KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL Youquan Song
2018-04-25 14:26 ` Greg KH
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 21/24] KVM/SVM: " Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 22/24] KVM/x86: Remove indirect MSR op calls from SPEC_CTRL Youquan Song
2018-04-25 14:26 ` Greg KH
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 23/24] KVM/VMX: Optimize vmx_vcpu_run() and svm_vcpu_run() by marking the RDMSR path as unlikely() Youquan Song
2018-04-18 3:18 ` [PATCH 24/24] x86/spectre_v2: Don't check microcode versions when running under hypervisors Youquan Song
2018-04-25 14:28 ` [PATCH 00/24] Backport Speculation Control support for 4.4 Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-04-17 4:26 [PATCH 01/24] x86/cpufeatures: Add CPUID_7_EDX CPUID leaf Youquan Song
2018-04-17 4:27 ` [PATCH 15/24] KVM: nVMX: Eliminate vmcs02 pool Youquan Song
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