linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}

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Message-ID: <56E7CE4C.1050409@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:56:44 +0100
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	xen-devel <Xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] x86/paravirt: Add paravirt_{read,write}_msr



On 14/03/2016 17:53, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > Please do the same for KVM.
>
> Can you clarify?  KVM uses the native version, and the native version
> only oopses with this series applied if panic_on_oops is set.

Since you fixed the panic_on_oops thing, I'm okay with letting KVM use
the unsafe version and seeing what breaks...

Paolo