linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] hyperv: SVM enlightened TLB flush support flag

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Date:   Wed, 28 Apr 2021 13:47:28 +0000
From:   Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
To:     Vineeth Pillai <viremana@...ux.microsoft.com>
Cc:     Lan Tianyu <Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com>,
        Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] hyperv: SVM enlightened TLB flush support flag

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 08:54:51PM +0000, Vineeth Pillai wrote:
> Bit 22 of HYPERV_CPUID_FEATURES.EDX is specific to SVM and specifies
> support for enlightened TLB flush. With this enlightenment enabled,
> ASID invalidations flushes only gva->hpa entries. To flush TLB entries
> derived from NPT, hypercalls should be used
> (HvFlushGuestPhysicalAddressSpace or HvFlushGuestPhysicalAddressList)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vineeth Pillai <viremana@...ux.microsoft.com>

Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>