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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: Wei Huang <wei.huang2@amd.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] FPU LWP 4/5: enable LWP for SVM guest
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:17:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA8294A020000780003C9D3@vpn.id2.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DA75B64.30709@amd.com>

>>> On 14.04.11 at 22:39, Wei Huang <wei.huang2@amd.com> wrote:
>+static void svm_lwp_save(struct vcpu *v)
>+{
>+    if ( cpu_has_lwp )
>+    {
>+        rdmsrl(MSR_AMD64_LWP_CFG, v->arch.hvm_svm.guest_lwp_cfg);
>+        wrmsrl(MSR_AMD64_LWP_CFG, 0x0);
>+        /* Disable LWP for next VCPU */
>+        wrmsrl(MSR_AMD64_LWP_CBADDR, 0x0);
>+    }
>+}
>+
>+static void svm_lwp_load(struct vcpu *v)
>+{
>+    if ( cpu_has_lwp ) 
>+    {
>+        /* Only LWP_CFG is reloaded. LWP_CBADDR will be reloaded via xrstor */
>+        wrmsrl(MSR_AMD64_LWP_CFG, v->arch.hvm_svm.guest_lwp_cfg);
>+    }
>+}

I think I had pointed this out before - to avoid these MSR accesses
for guests not using LWP, you should track whether the vCPU has
LWP support enabled (e.g. non-zero written into LWP_CFG) and
key off of that instead of cpu_has_lwp.

Jan

      reply	other threads:[~2011-04-15  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-14 20:39 [PATCH][RFC] FPU LWP 4/5: enable LWP for SVM guest Wei Huang
2011-04-15  9:17 ` Jan Beulich [this message]

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