Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/4] x86/vmx: Remove vmx_save_host_msrs() and host_msr_state

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 13.02.17 at 15:32, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A pcpu's LSTAR, STAR and SYSCALL_MASK MSRs are unconditionally switched when
> moving in and out of HVM vcpu context.  Two of these values are compile time
> constants, and the third is directly available in an existing per-cpu
> variable.
> 
> There is no need to save host state in vmx_cpu_up() into a different per-cpu
> structure, so drop all the infrastructure.  vmx_restore_host_msrs() is
> simplified to 3 plain WRMSR instructions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Nice.

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Jan


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