Re: [PATCH v4 15/17] kvm: x86: Report CORE_CAPABILITY on GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID

[Xiaoyao Li]

On Mon, 2019-03-04 at 12:14 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 04/03/19 12:10, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
> > Like you said before, I think we don't need the condition judgment
> > "if(boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SPLIT_LOCK_DETECT))", but to set
> > F(CORE_CAPABILITY)
> > always for guest since MSR_IA32_CORE_CAPABILITY is emulated.
> > 
> > And we should set the right emulated value of MSR_IA32_CORE_CAPABILITY for
> > guest
> > in function kvm_get_core_capability() based on whether
> > boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SPLIT_LOCK_DETECT) just as you commented in the
> > next
> > patch.
> 
> Yes, that would certainly be better.  However, you'd also have to move
> MSR_IA32_CORE_CAPABILITY handling to x86.c, because you'd have to enable
> X86_FEATURE_CORE_CAPABILITY for AMD.
> 
> Paolo

Thanks for your comments and advises.
I'll do it in next version.

Xiaoyao