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

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Message-ID: <20160216075041.GA27440@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:50:41 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	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


* Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:

> 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.
> + */

This sounds good to me.

Thanks,

	Ingo