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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Yang Z Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>,
	Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] Nested VMX: check VMX capability before read VMX related MSRs
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:50:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52405533.6000805@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52402FA702000078000F568C@nat28.tlf.novell.com>

On 09/23/2013 06:10 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vvmx.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vvmx.c
> @@ -1813,12 +1813,33 @@ int nvmx_handle_invvpid(struct cpu_user_
>   int nvmx_msr_read_intercept(unsigned int msr, u64 *msr_content)
>   {
>       struct vcpu *v = current;
> +    unsigned int ecx, dummy;
>       u64 data = 0, host_data = 0;
>       int r = 1;
>   
>       if ( !nestedhvm_enabled(v->domain) )
>           return 0;
>   
> +    /* VMX capablity MSRs are available only when guest supports VMX. */
> +    hvm_cpuid(0x1, &dummy, &dummy, &ecx, &dummy);

Depending on order in which you are going to commit patches you could 
change hvm_cpuid() dummy arguments to NULLs to make use of your "make 
hvm_cpuid() ..." patch. In [3/4] as well.


-boris

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-23 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-23 10:04 [PATCH v4 0/4] x86/HVM: miscellaneous improvements Jan Beulich
2013-09-23 10:10 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] Nested VMX: check VMX capability before read VMX related MSRs Jan Beulich
2013-09-23 14:50   ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2013-09-23 14:52     ` Jan Beulich
2013-09-23 10:10 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] VMX: clean up capability checks Jan Beulich
2013-09-23 10:11 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] Nested VMX: fix IA32_VMX_CR4_FIXED1 msr emulation Jan Beulich
2013-09-23 10:12 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] x86: make hvm_cpuid() tolerate NULL pointers Jan Beulich
2013-09-23 10:34   ` Andrew Cooper
2013-09-23 13:42   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2013-09-23 13:45     ` Jan Beulich
2013-09-30 12:05 ` Ping: [PATCH v4 0/4] x86/HVM: miscellaneous improvements Jan Beulich
2013-10-02 15:48   ` Nakajima, Jun

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