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[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 0/6] VMX MSRs policy for Nested Virt: part 1



The end goal of having VMX MSRs policy is to be able to manage
L1 VMX features. This patch series is the first part of this work.
There is no functional change to what L1 sees in VMX MSRs at this
point. But each domain will have a policy object which allows to
sensibly query what VMX features the domain has. This will unblock
some other nested virtualization work items.

Currently, when nested virt is enabled, the set of L1 VMX features
is fixed and calculated by nvmx_msr_read_intercept() as an intersection
between the full set of Xen's supported L1 VMX features, the set of
actual H/W features and, for MSR_IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP, the set of
features that Xen uses.

The above makes L1 VMX feature set inconsistent between different H/W
and there is no ability to control what features are available to L1.
The overall set of issues has much in common with CPUID policy.

Part 1 adds VMX MSRs into struct msr_domain_policy and initializes them
during domain creation based on CPUID policy. In the future it should be
possible to independently configure values of VMX MSRs for each domain.

v2 --> v3:
- Rebase on top of Generic MSR Policy
- Each VMX MSR now has its own availability flag
- VMX MSRs are now completely defined during domain creation
  (all CPUID policy changes are taken into account)

Sergey Dyasli (6):
  x86/msr: add Raw and Host domain policies
  x86/msr: add VMX MSRs into struct msr_domain_policy
  x86/msr: read VMX MSRs values into Raw policy
  x86/msr: add VMX MSRs into HVM_max domain policy
  x86/msr: update domain policy on CPUID policy changes
  x86/msr: handle VMX MSRs with guest_rd/wrmsr()

 xen/arch/x86/domctl.c              |   1 +
 xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c             |   8 +-
 xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c         |   6 -
 xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vvmx.c        | 178 ----------------
 xen/arch/x86/msr.c                 | 387 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/hvm.h      |   1 +
 xen/include/asm-x86/hvm/vmx/vvmx.h |   2 -
 xen/include/asm-x86/msr.h          | 417 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 8 files changed, 811 insertions(+), 189 deletions(-)

-- 
2.11.0


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