linux-kernel - Re: [9/8] KVM: x86: limit MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL access based on CPUID availability

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Date:   Tue, 30 Jan 2018 20:06:08 -0500
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@...cle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Liran Alon <liran.alon@...cle.com>,
        Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...zon.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [9/8] KVM: x86: limit MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL access based on CPUID
 availability

On 30/01/2018 18:47, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 18:11 -0500, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
>> Great, then the "per-VCPU MSR bitmaps" branch
>> (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git refs/heads/msr-bitmaps)
>> that I created last weekend can be pulled directly in tip/x86/pti.
>>
>> It cherry-picks directly to both 4.14 so it will be fine for Greg too.
> 
> Right, I've switched to pulling that branch in to my tree at 
> http://git.infradead.org/linux-retpoline.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ibpb
> 
> I seem to recall there was some hecking at it, and I expected it to
> change? :)

No, apart from adding a "!" in v1->v2 it's all fixed.  SHA1 ids won't
change.

Paolo