Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:51:56 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/cpu changes for v3.9 |
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On 02/19/2013 09:47 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 09:38:31AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> My fault... I was tracking the fix and lost track of the thread. >> >> The problem is that the fix is necessary but not sufficient, as it >> introduces an undesirable host-guest dependency. In order to allow >> neerw guests to work on older hosts we also should use the >> {rd,wr}msr_safe() functions to manipulate this MSR, with a comment >> as to why. >> >> Boris, could you prepare such a patch, please? > > I don't think Boris O. is at AMD anymore. Want me to add that to my fix > for kvm or prep a separate patch? >
Separate patch, please, and yes, I would greatly appreciate it.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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