Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:19:03 -0500 | From | Boris Ostrovsky <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/cpu changes for v3.9 |
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On 02/19/2013 12:57 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 06:47:58PM +0100, 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? > CC-ing Boris.
BorisP's patch is what I should have done. Can you take it?
-boris
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