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Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr

From Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr
Date 2016-03-14 15:10 +0100
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On 11/03/2016 20:06, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This adds paravirt hooks for unsafe MSR access.  On native, they
> call native_{read,write}_msr.  On Xen, they use
> xen_{read,write}_msr_safe.
> 
> Nothing uses them yet for ease of bisection.  The next patch will
> use them in rdmsrl, wrmsrl, etc.
> 
> I intentionally didn't make them OOPS on #GP on Xen.  I think that
> should be done separately by the Xen maintainers.

Please do the same for KVM.

Paolo

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[PATCH v3 3/5] x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-03-11 20:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-14 15:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-03-14 18:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-15 09:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-03-14 18:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-15 10:00 +0100

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