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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] VMX: use non-atomic bitops to manage MSR state


  • To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:36:30 +0000
  • Accept-language: en-US
  • Cc: "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:37:12 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org>
  • Thread-index: AQHRyudLhhEoFkETmU2FQFyGKFHE+p/2reyA
  • Thread-topic: [PATCH] VMX: use non-atomic bitops to manage MSR state

> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:JBeulich@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 7:31 PM
> 
> All host_msr_state accesses are solely on the owning CPU, and all
> guest_msr_state ones solely when the vCPU is current or being switched
> to. This, btw, is also in line with the use of find_first_set_bit()
> (which would be bogus if ->flags could get updated behind its back).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> 

Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>


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