Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/pti: KVM: fixes and optimizations for IBRS

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Feb 23 2018 - 02:26:36 EST



* Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Two tiny patches for the IBRS code. They should go in
> through the x86/pti tree and should apply to both 4.9 and 4.14 trees.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paolo
>
> v1->v2: remove patch 2, the same bug has already been fixed
>
> Paolo Bonzini (3):
> KVM: x86: use native MSR ops for SPEC_CTRL
> KVM: VMX: mark RDMSR path as unlikely
>
> arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 9 +++++----
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 9 +++++----
> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Applied to tip:x86/pti, with minor tweaks to the titles/changelogs.

If all goes fine in testing I will send all pending tip:x86/pti changes to Linus
later today, so the KVM development tree should be able to pull in these changes
via upstream pretty soon.

Thanks,

Ingo