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From: Brian Woods <brian.woods@amd.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	Brian Woods <brian.woods@amd.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] Virtual GIF
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:19:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171116171939.6853-1-brian.woods@amd.com> (raw)

On AMD family 17h processors, there is a feature called virtual GIF.
This allows a nested hypervisor to preform a CLGI or STGI without
needing to be intercepted by the host hypervisor.  For more information
about it please see:

AMD64 Architecture Programmer’s Manual Volume 2: System Programming
http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/24593.pdf
Section: Virtual GIF (Section 15.33.2)

This patch series adds support to check for and enable the virtual
GIF features if available.

These patches were tested on a AMD family 17h (EPYC 7401) system.

Brian Woods (2):
  x86/svm: Add virtual GIF feature definition
  x86/svm: Add virtual GIF support

 xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/nestedsvm.c   |  7 ++++++-
 xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c         |  1 +
 xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/vmcb.c        | 12 ++++++++++++
 xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/svm/svm.h  |  2 ++
 xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/svm/vmcb.h |  6 ++++--
 5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

-- 
2.11.0


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             reply	other threads:[~2017-11-16 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-16 17:19 Brian Woods [this message]
2017-11-16 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/svm: Add virtual GIF feature definition Brian Woods
2017-11-16 17:44   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-11-16 18:01     ` Brian Woods
2017-11-16 17:19 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/svm: Add virtual GIF support Brian Woods
2017-11-16 19:17 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Virtual GIF Boris Ostrovsky

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