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[v3,0/2] Switch MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES and one optimization

Message ID 20190325080650.19896-1-xiaoyao.li@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive)
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Series Switch MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES and one optimization | expand

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Xiaoyao Li March 25, 2019, 8:06 a.m. UTC 
Patch 1 switches MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLE between host and guest to avoid
cpuid faulting and ring3mwait of host leaking to guest. Because cpuid
faulting eanbled in host may potentially cause guest boot failure, and kvm
doesn't expose ring3mwait to guest yet, it should be leaked to guest.

Patch 2 optimizes the switch of MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES by avoiding WRMSR
whenever possible to save cycles.

==changelog==
v2->v3:
- use msr_misc_features_shadow instead of reading hardware msr, from Sean
Christopherson
- avoid WRMSR whenever possible, from Sean Christopherson.

v1->v2: 
- move the save/restore of cpuid faulting bit to
vmx_prepare_swich_to_guest/vmx_prepare_swich_to_host to avoid every
vmentry RDMSR, based on Paolo's comment.

Xiaoyao Li (2):
  kvm/vmx: Switch MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES between host and guest
  x86/vmx: optimize MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES switch

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c       |  1 +
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c          | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              | 15 ++++++++++++---
 4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)