linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rdmsr_on_cpu, wrmsr_on

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Message-ID: <45B00588.3010207@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:40:56 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
CC:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...nvz.org>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davej@...emonkey.org.uk,
	devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rdmsr_on_cpu, wrmsr_on_cpu

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> HOWEVER -- and this is where things get gnarly -- the CPUID and MSR
>> drivers would really like to be able to execute CPUID, WRMSR and RDMSR
>> with the entire GPR register set (except the stack pointer) pre-set and
>> post-captured, since it's highly likely that there are going to be
>> nonstandard MSRs and CPUID levels (already witness Intel breaking the
>> CPUID architecture by introducing %ecx dependencies.)
> 
> That looks like such a specialized requirement that I would suggest 
> you keep that in the drivers. The interface for most users would be just
> too ugly
> 

It would, but rather than having the paravirtualization interfaces 
duplicate out of control, we could/should implement the less generic 
features in terms of the more generic, above the pvz layer.

	-hpa
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