Re: [PATCH v1] x86/msr: add Raw and Host domain policies

[Sergey Dyasli <sergey.dyasli@citrix.com>]

On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 04:06 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > On 16.02.18 at 11:33, <sergey.dyasli@citrix.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 06:33 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > > > On 08.02.18 at 11:23, <sergey.dyasli@citrix.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >  	uint64_t val;
> > > > +	int rc;
> > > >  
> > > > -	if (rdmsr_safe(MSR_INTEL_PLATFORM_INFO, val) ||
> > > > +	if ((rc = rdmsr_safe(MSR_INTEL_PLATFORM_INFO, val)) == 0)
> > > > +	{
> > > > +		dp->plaform_info.available = true;
> > > > +		if (val & MSR_PLATFORM_INFO_CPUID_FAULTING)
> > > > +			dp->plaform_info.cpuid_faulting = true;
> > > > +	}
> > > > +
> > > > +	if (rc ||
> > > >  	    !(val & MSR_PLATFORM_INFO_CPUID_FAULTING) ||
> > > >  	    rdmsr_safe(MSR_INTEL_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES,
> > > >  		       this_cpu(msr_misc_features)))
> > > 
> > > Below here we have
> > > 
> > > 		setup_clear_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_CPUID_FAULTING);
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't this be reflected in the host policy?
> > 
> > I guess the correct thing to do for now for host_msr_domain_policy is:
> > 
> >     dp->plaform_info.cpuid_faulting = cpu_has_cpuid_faulting;
> >     
> > Looking at the code, calculate_pv_max_policy() will be simplified with
> > the above change: pv_max_msr_domain_policy will become a copy of host
> > policy.
> > 
> > This actually brings a question: what to do about per-pCPU MSRs in the
> > context of MSR policy?
> 
> How does per-pCPU-ness of an MSR affect the policy? Are you
> thinking of CPUs with different capabilities? We assume all CPUs
> are identical in many other places.

Yes, CPUs are assumed to be identical. But currently Xen checks
the presence of MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES (which is a per-pCPU msr)
on the boot CPU, and it affects X86_FEATURE_CPUID_FAULTING. Which
in it's turn affects the presence of MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES for PV vCPUs.

So the actual question is: where to store the availability of
MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES (and possibly other per-pCPU msrs in the future)
and is it even needed to do so?

-- 
Thanks,
Sergey
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