linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 2/7] KVM: nVMX: modify vmcs12 fields to match Hyper-V enlightened VMCS

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Date:   Tue, 19 Dec 2017 22:19:30 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>
Cc:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        "Michael Kelley (EOSG)" <Michael.H.Kelley@...rosoft.com>,
        Mohammed Gamal <mmorsy@...hat.com>,
        Cathy Avery <cavery@...hat.com>, Bandan Das <bsd@...hat.com>,
        Roman Kagan <rkagan@...tuozzo.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/7] KVM: nVMX: modify vmcs12 fields to match Hyper-V
 enlightened VMCS

On 19/12/2017 18:40, Jim Mattson wrote:
> I'm not sure that's really the right way to go, since any guest that
> has already read the IA32_VMX_BASIC MSR has a right to expect the VMCS
> revision to remain unchanged.

Hmm, not just that, "the VMCS revision identifier is never written by
the processor" according to the SDM.  Maybe the code that accesses the
vmcs12 can be placed in a .h file and included more than once in vmx.c.

Paolo