linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/7] x86/kvmclock: Cleanup the code

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1807091202520.1771@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Mon, 9 Jul 2018 12:03:42 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>,
        steven.sistare@...cle.com, daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com,
        x86@...nel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/7] x86/kvmclock: Cleanup the code

On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 06:13:11PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > -	native_write_msr(msr_kvm_wall_clock, low, high);
> > +	wrmsrl(msr_kvm_wall_clock, slow_virt_to_phys(&wall_clock));
> 
> Does it matter that you went from an explicit native WRMSR instruction
> to a potentially paravirt MSR thing?

Ah crap, that wants to be native_wrmsrl()