Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] KVM: VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 31/01/2018 16:05, Jim Mattson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, but how would moving the field into struct loaded_vmcs do anything?
>>  Only vmon/vmoff would change anything in vmx->nested.vmcs02.
> 
> My suggestion was that nested_vmx_merge_msr_bitmap should set the
> vmcs02 version of save_spec_ctrl_on_exit based on the calculated value
> of the write permission bit for IA32_SPEC_CTRL in the vmcs02 MSR
> permission bitmap.
> 
>> Even then, L1 vmexits will also be penalized because L1 has probably
>> done an RDMSR/WRMSR on L2->L1 vmexit.  So I don't think it's an issue?
> 
> Yes, it sucks to be L1 in this situation.

Can we just say it sucks to be L2 too? :)  Because in the end as long as
no one ever writes to spec_ctrl, everybody is happy.

Paolo