On Wed, Jun 05, 2024, Sean Christopherson wrote: > The primary goal of this series is to clean up the VMX MSR macros and their > usage in KVM. > > The first half of the series touches memtype code that (obviously) impacts > areas well outside of KVM, in order to address several warts: > > (a) KVM is defining VMX specific macros for the architectural memtypes > (b) the PAT and MTRR code define similar, yet different macros > (c) that the PAT code not only has macros for the types (well, enums), > it also has macros for encoding the entire PAT MSR that can be used > by KVM. > > The memtype changes aren't strictly required for the KVM-focused changes in > the second half of the series, but splitting this into two series would > generating a number of conflicts that would be cumbersome to resolve after > the fact. > > I would like to take this through the KVM tree, as I don't expect the PAT/MTRR > code to see much change in the near future, and IIRC the original motiviation > of the VMX MSR cleanups was to prepare for KVM feature enabling (FRED maybe?). x86 folks, can I get Acks/reviews/NAKs on patches 1-2? I'd like to land this series in 6.12 as there is KVM feature enabling work that builds on top. It's not a hard dependency, but having these cleanups in place would make my life easier. Thanks!
