On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 11:16:22AM +0800, Yang Weijiang wrote:
> From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> A handful of CET MSRs are not context switched through "traditional"
> methods, e.g. VMCS or manual switching, but rather are passed through
> to the guest and are saved and restored by XSAVES/XRSTORS, i.e. in the
> guest's FPU state.
>
> Load the guest's FPU state if userspace is accessing MSRs whose values
> are managed by XSAVES so that the MSR helper, e.g. vmx_{get,set}_msr(),
> can simply do {RD,WR}MSR to access the guest's value.
>
> Note that guest_cpuid_has() is not queried as host userspace is allowed
> to access MSRs that have not been exposed to the guest, e.g. it might do
> KVM_SET_MSRS prior to KVM_SET_CPUID2.
No comments on the patch itself. Added a blurb to the changelog to call
out the vcpu==NULL case is possible due to KVM_GET_MSRS also being a device
scope ioctl().
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
