Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] Refactor handling flow of KVM_SET_CPUID*

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 09/07/20 06:34, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
> 4 Patches of v3 has been queued into kvm/queue branch. This v4 contains
> the rest to refactor the flow of KVM_SET_CPUID* as:
> 
> 1. cpuid check: check if userspace provides legal CPUID settings;
> 
> 2. cpuid update: Update userspace provided CPUID settings. It currently
>    only contains kvm_update_cpuid_runtime, which updates special CPUID
>    bits based on the vcpu state, e.g., OSXSAVE, OSPKE. In the future, we
>    can re-introduce kvm_update_cpuid() if KVM needs to force on/off some
>    bits.
> 
> 3. update vcpu states: Update vcpu states/settings based on the final updated
>    CPUID settings. 
> 
> v4:
>  - remove 4 queued patches
>  - rebased to kvm/queue: c16ced9cc67a "x86/kvm/vmx: Use native read/write_cr2()"
>  - fix one bug in v3 to call kvfree(cpuid_entries) in kvm_vcpu_ioctl_set_cpuid()
>  - rename "update_vcpu_model" to "vcpu_after_set_cpuid" [Paolo]	
>  - Add a new patch to extrace kvm_update_cpuid_runtime()
> 
> v3:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200708065054.19713-1-xiaoyao.li@intel.com
>  - Add a note in KVM api doc to state the previous CPUID configuration
>    is not reliable if current KVM_SET_CPUID* fails [Jim]
>  - Adjust Patch 2 to reduce code churn [Sean]
>  - Commit message refine to add more justification [Sean]
>  - Add a new patch 7
> 
> v2:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623115816.24132-1-xiaoyao.li@intel.com
>  - rebase to kvm/queue: a037ff353ba6 ("Merge branch 'kvm-master' into HEAD")
>  - change the name of kvm_update_state_based_on_cpuid() to
>    kvm_update_vcpu_model() [Sean]
>  - Add patch 5 to rename kvm_x86_ops.cpuid_date() to
>    kvm_x86_ops.update_vcpu_model()
> 
> v1:
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200529085545.29242-1-xiaoyao.li@intel.com
> 
> Xiaoyao Li (5):
>   KVM: x86: Introduce kvm_check_cpuid()
>   KVM: x86: Extract kvm_update_cpuid_runtime() from kvm_update_cpuid()
>   KVM: x86: Rename kvm_update_cpuid() to kvm_vcpu_after_set_cpuid()
>   KVM: x86: Rename cpuid_update() callback to vcpu_after_set_cpuid()
>   KVM: x86: Move kvm_x86_ops.vcpu_after_set_cpuid() into
>     kvm_vcpu_after_set_cpuid()
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c            | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h            |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c            |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c          |  4 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c       |  3 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c          |  4 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              | 10 ++--
>  8 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
> 

Queued, thanks.

Paolo