Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] KVM/nVMX: Set the CPU_BASED_USE_MSR_BITMAPS if we have a valid L02 MSR bitmap

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Feb 11 2018 - 05:55:12 EST



* Woodhouse, David <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 2018-02-11 at 11:19 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Note, I fixed the changelog to refer to the correct upstream SHA1,
> > which is:
> >
> >   d28b387fb74d: KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
>
> Thanks for catching that.
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if 'git rebase --interactive tip/x86/pti' had done
> that *for* me? :)

Yeah, but given that the commit title changed as well:

086e7d4118cc ("KVM: VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL")
d28b387fb74d ("KVM/VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL")

I'd rather not have tooling guess about such things.

Thanks,

Ingo