Re: [PATCH 1/4] KVM: VMX: cache secondary exec controls

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 24/08/2017 17:41, Jim Mattson wrote:
> Userspace can establish the value of the virtualized
> IA32_VMX_PROCBASED_CTLS2 MSR via the KVM_SET_MSRS ioctl, which goes
> through vms_set_vmx_msr. But maybe that's not important, since
> features can only be disabled on that path.

Yeah, I was only thinking of non-nested in the commit message.  It's
complicated enough. :)

Paolo

> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 24/08/2017 16:47, Jim Mattson wrote:
>>>> Currently, secondary execution controls are divided in three groups:
>>>>
>>>> - static, depending mostly on the module arguments or the processor
>>>>   (vmx_secondary_exec_control)
>>>>
>>>> - static, depending on CPUID (vmx_cpuid_update)
>>> There should also be:
>>>
>>> - static, depending on guest VMX capability MSRs (vmx_set_vmx_msr)
>> Can you explain what you mean?
>>
>> Paolo