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SubjectRe: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Add a dedicated INVD intercept routine
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On 9/24/20 1:51 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 23/09/20 22:40, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>>>> +static int invd_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
>>>> +{
>>>> + /*
>>>> + * Can't do emulation on an SEV guest and INVD is emulated
>>>> + * as a NOP, so just skip the instruction.
>>>> + */
>>>> + return (sev_guest(svm->vcpu.kvm))
>>>> + ? kvm_skip_emulated_instruction(&svm->vcpu)
>>>> + : kvm_emulate_instruction(&svm->vcpu, 0);
>>>
>>> Is there any reason not to do kvm_skip_emulated_instruction() for both SEV
>>> and legacy? VMX has the same odd kvm_emulate_instruction() call, but AFAICT
>>> that's completely unecessary, i.e. VMX can also convert to a straight skip.
>>
>> You could, I just figured I'd leave the legacy behavior just in case. Not
>> that I can think of a reason that behavior would ever change.
>
> Yeah, let's do skip for both SVM and VMX.

Ok, I'll submit a two patch series to change SVM and VMX. I'll do two
patches because of the fixes tag to get the SVM fix back to stable. But,
if you would prefer a single patch, let me know.

Thanks,
Tom

>
> Paolo
>

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