Re: [STABLE 4.9.y PATCH 0/9] Backport of KVM Speculation Control support

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/02/2018 18:29, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I've put together a linux-4.9.y branch at 
> http://git.infradead.org/retpoline-stable.git/shortlog/refs/heads/linux-4.9.y
> 
> Most of it is fairly straightforward, apart from the IBPB on context 
> switch for which Tim has already posted a candidate. I wanted some more
> review on my backports of the KVM bits though, including some extra
> historical patches I pulled in.

Looks good!  Thanks for the work,

Paolo

> Ashok Raj (1):
>   KVM/x86: Add IBPB support
> 
> David Hildenbrand (1):
>   KVM: nVMX: vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt() can't fail
> 
> David Matlack (1):
>   KVM: nVMX: mark vmcs12 pages dirty on L2 exit
> 
> Jim Mattson (1):
>   KVM: nVMX: Eliminate vmcs02 pool
> 
> KarimAllah Ahmed (3):
>   KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES
>   KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
>   KVM/SVM: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
> 
> Paolo Bonzini (2):
>   KVM: VMX: introduce alloc_loaded_vmcs
>   KVM: VMX: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU
> 
>  arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c |  21 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h |  31 +++
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm.c   | 116 ++++++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c   | 730 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c   |   1 +
>  5 files changed, 554 insertions(+), 345 deletions(-)
>