On 10/11/20 16:50, Borislav Petkov wrote:
I was thinking of
having a mapping between f/m/s and a list of MSRs which those models
have - even non-architectural ones - but that's a waste of energy. Why?
Because using the *msr_safe() variants will give you the same thing
Yes, pretty much.
If it makes sense to emulate certain non-architectural MSRs we can add them.
See above - probably not worth the effort.
When we do, certain Microsoft OSes are usually involved. :)
I'll take a look at how ugly it would become to make the majority of MSR
accesses safe.
I think most of them already are, especially the non-architectural ones,
because I remember going through a similar discussion a few years ago
and Andy said basically "screw it, let's just use *_safe anywhere" as
well. I don't see any need to do anything but add it to your review
checklist if you have it (and do it now for MSR_ERROR_CONTROL).
Paolo
