Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86: Add support for the pcommit instruction

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jan 28 2015 - 16:02:20 EST


On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:10:46PM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote:
> Should this patch series also add defines for the virtual
> machine control data structure changes?
>
> 1. Add the new VM-Execution Controls bit 21 as
> SECONDARY_EXEC_PCOMMIT_EXITING 0x00200000
> to arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h.
>
> 2. Add the new exit reason of 64 (0x41) as
> EXIT_REASON_PCOMMIT 64
> to arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h and (with a
> VMX_EXIT_REASONS string) to usr/include/asm/vmx.h.
>
> 3. Add a kvm_vmx_exit_handler to arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c.

These look like a separate patchset for kvm enablement to me.

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Boris.

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