linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] KVM: X86: Dynamic allocate core residency msr state

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Message-ID: <CANRm+CyyCq5keLokqu5ZZodnyvd-AmGejY_O3Gz2pcGWBrz=WA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 08:43:28 +0800
From:   Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] KVM: X86: Dynamic allocate core residency msr state

On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 00:01, Sean Christopherson
<sean.j.christopherson@...el.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 03:34:07PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> > From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>
> >
> > Dynamic allocate core residency msr state. MSR_CORE_C1_RES is unreadable
> > except for ATOM platform, so it is ignore here.
> >
> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 11 +++++++++++
> >  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c          |  5 +++++
> >  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > index 15e973d..bd615ee 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > @@ -538,6 +538,15 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_hv {
> >       cpumask_t tlb_flush;
> >  };
> >
> > +#define NR_CORE_RESIDENCY_MSRS 3
> > +
> > +struct kvm_residency_msr {
> > +     s64 value;
> > +     u32 index;
> > +     bool delta_from_host;
> > +     bool count_with_host;
> > +};
> > +
> >  struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
> >       /*
> >        * rip and regs accesses must go through
> > @@ -785,6 +794,8 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
> >
> >       /* AMD MSRC001_0015 Hardware Configuration */
> >       u64 msr_hwcr;
> > +
> > +     struct kvm_residency_msr *core_cstate_msrs;
>
> Why are these in kvm_vcpu_arch?  AFAICT they're only wired up for VMX.

They can be used by SVM later though I'm too busy to do that.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li