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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND v3 2/3] KVM: vmx: Emulate MSR IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL
2019-06-17 14:31+0800, Xiaoyao Li:
> On 6/17/2019 11:32 AM, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
> > On 6/16/2019 5:55 PM, Tao Xu wrote:
> > > +    if (vmx->msr_ia32_umwait_control != host_umwait_control)
> > > +        add_atomic_switch_msr(vmx, MSR_IA32_UMWAIT_CONTROL,
> > > +                      vmx->msr_ia32_umwait_control,
> > > +                      host_umwait_control, false);
> >
> > The bit 1 is reserved, at least, we need to do below to ensure not
> > modifying the reserved bit:
> >
> >     guest_val = (vmx->msr_ia32_umwait_control & ~BIT_ULL(1)) |
> >             (host_val & BIT_ULL(1))
> >
>
> I find a better solution to ensure reserved bit 1 not being modified in
> vmx_set_msr() as below:
>
> if((data ^ umwait_control_cached) & BIT_ULL(1))
> return 1;

We could just be checking

if (data & BIT_ULL(1))

because the guest cannot change its visible reserved value and KVM
currently initializes the value to 0.

The arch/x86/kernel/cpu/umwait.c series assumes that the reserved bit
is 0 (hopefully deliberately) and I would do the same in KVM as it
simplifies the logic. (We don't have to even think about migrations
between machines with a different reserved value and making it play
nicely with possible future implementations of that bit.)

Thanks.

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