Re: [PATCH 3/3] X86/nVMX: Update the MSR_BITMAP field with the L02 MSR BITMAP

From: Jim Mattson
Date: Fri Feb 09 2018 - 18:57:47 EST


On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 3:41 PM, KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I assume you are referring to this:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10194819/
>
> .. which is now:
>
> commit 904e14fb7cb9 ("KVM: VMX: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU")
>
> right?
>
> If this is the case, then I do not see where the MSR_BITMAP is being
> updated here. In fact, would not this be the commit that actually broke
> it?

I'm referring to
<1517938181-15317-6-git-send-email-dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, which has:

@@ -10043,6 +9954,9 @@ static void prepare_vmcs02(struct kvm_vcpu
*vcpu, struct vmcs12 *vmcs12)
if (kvm_has_tsc_control)
decache_tsc_multiplier(vmx);

+ if (cpu_has_vmx_msr_bitmap())
+ vmcs_write64(MSR_BITMAP, __pa(vmx->nested.vmcs02.msr_bitmap));
+
if (enable_vpid) {
/*
* There is no direct mapping between vpid02 and vpid12, the