Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] KVM: VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Fri Feb 02 2018 - 13:20:28 EST


On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 06:05:54PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 12:53 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > .snip..
> > >
> > > @@ -1913,6 +1914,29 @@ static void update_exception_bitmap(struct
> > > kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > >  }
> > >  
> > >  /*
> > > + * Check if MSR is intercepted for currently loaded MSR bitmap.
> > > + */
> > > +static bool msr_write_intercepted(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr)
> > > +{
> > > + unsigned long *msr_bitmap;
> > > + int f = sizeof(unsigned long);
> >
> > unsigned int
>
> $ grep -n 'f = sizeof' vmx.c
> 1934: int f = sizeof(unsigned long);
> 5013: int f = sizeof(unsigned long);
> 5048: int f = sizeof(unsigned long);
> 5097: int f = sizeof(unsigned long);
>
> It sucks enough that we're doing this stuff repeatedly, and it's a
> prime candidate for cleaning up, but I wasn't going to send Karim off
> to bikeshed that today. Let's at least keep it consistent.

Sure.