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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:05:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <564CF623.40502@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUTp=Shcmvh44fE5URugd6c41dDGdDM8cKvnP=Gqap45A@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/18/2015 03:58 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can you just add !xen_pv_domain() to the opportunistic SYSRET check
>> instead?  Bury the alternatives in that macro, ie.
>> static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XENPV).  That would likely benefit other
>> code as well.
> We could, but that won't help the 64-bit case where we want to keep
> the full asm path.

I don't think I understand what you mean here. Which full asm path?

-boris

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-18 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1447877179-2775-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2015-11-18 20:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests Boris Ostrovsky
2015-11-18 20:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: irq_enable_sysexit pv op is no longer needed Boris Ostrovsky
2015-11-18 20:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: usergs_sysret32 " Boris Ostrovsky
     [not found] ` <1447877179-2775-2-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2015-11-18 20:21   ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/xen: Avoid fast syscall path for Xen PV guests Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-18 20:47     ` Borislav Petkov
2015-11-18 20:50     ` Brian Gerst
     [not found]     ` <CAMzpN2iofkEeYkiZa8FRJ5gbz5smPbV0COOye9wZ9OhV6pBfow@mail.gmail.com>
2015-11-18 20:58       ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-18 22:05         ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2015-11-19 12:08     ` Borislav Petkov
     [not found] ` <1447877179-2775-3-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2015-11-18 20:23   ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: irq_enable_sysexit pv op is no longer needed Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]   ` <20151118201152.GA6094@char.us.oracle.com>
2015-11-18 20:34     ` Boris Ostrovsky
     [not found] ` <1447877179-2775-4-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
2015-11-18 20:26   ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: usergs_sysret32 " Andy Lutomirski
2015-11-19 12:10 ` [PATCH 0/3] Fix and cleanup for 32-bit PV sysexit Borislav Petkov

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