From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: "Sergey Dyasli" <sergey.dyasli@citrix.com>,
"Wei Liu" <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
"Ian Jackson" <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>,
"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/13] x86: Introduce struct cpu_policy to refer to a group of individual policies
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:32:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180716103235.cv5ytw25x7czn332@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1531512194-6865-12-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 09:03:12PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> This is prep work for the following patch - please refer to it as well.
>
> When auditing and manipulating policies, it is necessary to do so with a
> complete set of policies, due to the interdependences of the contents. A
> containing structure like this will allow for clearer APIs and code.
>
> As a first user, this structure is convenient for the mapping used by
> XEN_SYSCTL_get_cpu_policy (implemented in the next patch), and for auditing
> (later when XEN_DOMCTL_set_cpu_policy is implemented).
>
> At this point, the distinction between *_max and *_default is introduced into
> the ABI. For now, *_default is mapped to *_max, but future development work
> will result in *_default being a logical subset of *_max.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-13 20:03 [PATCH v2 00/13] x86: CPUID and MSR policy marshalling support Andrew Cooper
2018-07-13 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] x86/msr: Drop stale comment for vcpu_msrs.spec_ctrl Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 7:21 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-16 9:37 ` Roger Pau Monné
2018-07-16 11:02 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-13 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] libx86: Introduce libx86/cpuid.h Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 9:23 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-16 10:22 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 10:51 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-13 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] libx86: generate cpuid-autogen.h in the libx86 include dir Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 9:31 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-13 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] libx86: Share struct cpuid_policy with userspace Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 9:38 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-16 9:51 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 10:04 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-16 10:16 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 10:24 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-13 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] libx86: introduce a libx86 shared library Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 9:02 ` Wei Liu
2018-07-16 10:17 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-16 10:35 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 10:52 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-13 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] libx86: Introduce libx86/msr.h and share msr_policy with userspace Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 9:41 ` Roger Pau Monné
2018-07-16 10:19 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-13 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] libx86: Introduce a helper to serialise cpuid_policy objects Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 9:18 ` Wei Liu
2018-07-16 9:45 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-16 10:39 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 10:55 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-16 10:45 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-17 10:02 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-17 11:58 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-13 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] libx86: Introduce a helper to serialise msr_policy objects Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 9:24 ` Wei Liu
2018-07-16 10:47 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-13 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] libx86: Introduce a helper to deserialise cpuid_policy objects Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 9:57 ` Wei Liu
2018-07-17 10:09 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-13 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] libx86: introduce a helper to deserialise msr_policy objects Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 10:07 ` Wei Liu
2018-07-16 11:36 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-17 10:17 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-17 12:01 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-17 16:06 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-17 16:23 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-13 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] x86: Introduce struct cpu_policy to refer to a group of individual policies Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 9:55 ` Roger Pau Monné
2018-07-16 10:32 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2018-07-16 12:04 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-16 12:16 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 12:29 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-16 13:15 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 13:23 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-13 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] x86/sysctl: Implement XEN_SYSCTL_get_cpu_policy Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 10:16 ` Roger Pau Monné
2018-07-16 10:58 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 11:04 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-16 11:54 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-17 16:50 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-18 6:45 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-13 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] x86/domctl: Implement XEN_DOMCTL_get_cpu_policy Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 10:26 ` Roger Pau Monné
2018-07-17 17:08 ` Andrew Cooper
2018-07-16 12:00 ` Jan Beulich
2018-07-30 2:14 ` Chao Gao
2018-08-17 21:22 ` Daniel De Graaf
2018-07-30 2:46 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] x86: CPUID and MSR policy marshalling support Chao Gao
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