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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 10/21] x86/cpu: Rework Intel masking/faulting setup



On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 12:57:15PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> This patch is best reviewed as its end result rather than as a diff, as it
> rewrites almost all of the setup.
> 
> On the BSP, cpuid information is used to evaluate the potential available set
> of masking MSRs, and they are unconditionally probed, filling in the
> availability information and hardware defaults.  A side effect of this is that
> probe_intel_cpuid_faulting() can move to being __init.
> 
> The command line parameters are then combined with the hardware defaults to
> further restrict the Xen default masking level.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>

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