Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] x86/feature: Detect the x86 IBRS feature to control Speculation
From: Tim Chen
Date: Tue Jan 09 2018 - 18:00:01 EST
On 01/09/2018 09:58 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 09/01/2018 18:53, Tim Chen wrote:
>> On 01/09/2018 02:39 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>>> +
>>> +#define MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL 0x00000048
>>> +#define SPEC_CTRL_FEATURE_DISABLE_IBRS (0 << 0)
>>> +#define SPEC_CTRL_FEATURE_ENABLE_IBRS (1 << 0)
>>
>>
>> Boris requested that the name for ENABLE/DISABLE to be shortened to
>> SPEC_CTRL_{ENABLE,DISABLE}_IBRS. I'm planning to do that
>> for the next patchset update.
>
> Were you also planning to include KVM patches in your patchset sooner or
> later? Or would that be a separate submission?
Ashok Raj will be sending out the KVM related patches in a short
while after I updated my patchset.
Tim