linux-kernel - Re: [PART1 RFC 6/9] svm: Add interrupt injection via AVIC

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Date:	Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:33:53 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>,
	joro@...tes.org, alex.williamson@...hat.com, gleb@...nel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, wei@...hat.com,
	sherry.hurwitz@....com, x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PART1 RFC 6/9] svm: Add interrupt injection via AVIC

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 07:56:59PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Ok, next examples: MSR_VM_CR and MSR_VM_IGNNE. :)

I knew you were going to dig out some. :-)

> Are you okay with moving all the SVM MSRs to virtext.h instead?

So I would not move any now and cause unnecessary churn. I think it
should be enough if we agree on a strategy wrt msr-index.h and then
follow it. I think we should do something similar to pci_ids.h.

Let me add tip guys to CC.

---
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
index 552346598dab..75a5bb61d32f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_X86_MSR_INDEX_H
 #define _ASM_X86_MSR_INDEX_H
 
-/* CPU model specific register (MSR) numbers */
+/*
+ * CPU model specific register (MSR) numbers.
+ *
+ * Do not add new entries to this file unless the definitions are shared
+ * between multiple compilation units.
+ */
 
 /* x86-64 specific MSRs */
 #define MSR_EFER		0xc0000080 /* extended feature register */


-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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