Re: [PATCH 4/4] kvm, vmx: remove manually coded vmx instructions

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Fri Oct 26 2018 - 10:30:56 EST


On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:46:27AM +0000, Stecklina, Julian wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-10-24 at 10:44 -0700, Eric Northup wrote:
> > This loses the exception handling from __ex* ->
> > ____kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot.
> >
> > If deliberate, this should be called out in changelog.  Has the race
> > which commit 4ecac3fd fixed been mitigated otherwise?
>
> No, this was not deliberate. Will fix.

This is already in kvm/next as commit 4b1e54786e48 ("KVM/x86: Use
assembly instruction mnemonics instead of .byte streams"), this patch
can be dropped.