Re: [PATCH v7 2/9] vmx: spp: Add control flags for Sub-Page Protection(SPP)

From: Yang Weijiang
Date: Thu Nov 21 2019 - 10:32:49 EST


On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:04:51AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 19/11/19 09:49, Yang Weijiang wrote:
> > @@ -228,6 +228,7 @@
> > #define X86_FEATURE_FLEXPRIORITY ( 8*32+ 2) /* Intel FlexPriority */
> > #define X86_FEATURE_EPT ( 8*32+ 3) /* Intel Extended Page Table */
> > #define X86_FEATURE_VPID ( 8*32+ 4) /* Intel Virtual Processor ID */
> > +#define X86_FEATURE_SPP ( 8*32+ 5) /* Intel EPT-based Sub-Page Write Protection */
>
> Please do not include X86_FEATURE_SPP. In general I don't like the VMX
> features word, but apart from that SPP is not a feature that affects all
> VMs in the same way as EPT or FlexPriority.
>
So what's a friendly way to let a user check if SPP feature is there?

> Paolo