linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] KVM: pass through CPUID(0x80000006)

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Message-ID: <c351cec8-fb35-c34f-edbf-2117fa147082@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:52:35 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Eric Northup <digitaleric@...il.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc:     Jon Cargille <jcargill@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Northup <digitaleric@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] KVM: pass through CPUID(0x80000006)

On 15/04/20 07:27, Eric Northup wrote:
>>>   Return the host's L2 cache and TLB information for CPUID.0x80000006
>>>   instead of zeroing out the entry as part of KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID.
>>>   This allows a userspace VMM to feed KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID's output
>>>   directly into KVM_SET_CPUID2 (without breaking the guest).
> This is a much better commit message, thanks.
> 

Queued, thanks.

Paolo