linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/pti: KVM: fixes and optimizations for IBRS

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Date:   Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:26:24 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@...zon.de>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/pti: KVM: fixes and optimizations for IBRS


* Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> wrote:

> Two tiny patches for the IBRS code.  They should go in
> through the x86/pti tree and should apply to both 4.9 and 4.14 trees.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paolo
> 
> v1->v2: remove patch 2, the same bug has already been fixed
> 
> Paolo Bonzini (3):
>   KVM: x86: use native MSR ops for SPEC_CTRL
>   KVM: VMX: mark RDMSR path as unlikely
> 
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm.c |  9 +++++----
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |  9 +++++----
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Applied to tip:x86/pti, with minor tweaks to the titles/changelogs.

If all goes fine in testing I will send all pending tip:x86/pti changes to Linus 
later today, so the KVM development tree should be able to pull in these changes 
via upstream pretty soon.

Thanks,

	Ingo