linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] x86/split_lock: Cache the value of MSR_TEST

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Message-ID: <dfd49ff5-a609-ea8b-a652-846afd0af828@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 7 Feb 2020 12:18:44 +0800
From:   Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        hpa@...or.com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, tony.luck@...el.com,
        peterz@...radead.org, fenghua.yu@...el.com, x86@...nel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] x86/split_lock: Cache the value of MSR_TEST_CTRL
 in percpu data

On 2/7/2020 4:23 AM, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 03:04:07PM +0800, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
>> Cache the value of MSR_TEST_CTRL in percpu data msr_test_ctrl_cache,
>> which will be used by KVM module.
>>
>> It also avoids an expensive RDMSR instruction if SLD needs to be context
>> switched.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/x86/include/asm/cpu.h  |  2 ++
>>   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
>>   2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpu.h
>> index ff567afa6ee1..2b20829db450 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpu.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpu.h
>> @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ struct x86_cpu {
>>   };
>>   
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
>> +DECLARE_PER_CPU(u64, msr_test_ctrl_cache);
>> +
> 
> Why does this depend on HOTPLUG_CPU?
> 

Sorry, my bad,

It should be under CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL