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Re: [RFC PATCH v2 21/34] x86/msr: Utilize the alternatives mechanism to write MSR



On 25.04.25 14:33, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 06:05:19PM +0200, Jürgen Groß wrote:

It's not a major change, but when it is patched to use the immediate
form MSR write instruction, it's straightforwardly streamlined.

It should be rather easy to switch the current wrmsr/rdmsr paravirt patching
locations to use the rdmsr/wrmsr instructions instead of doing a call to
native_*msr().

Right, just make the Xen functions asm stubs that expect the instruction
registers instead of C-abi and ALT_NOT_XEN the thing.

Shouldn't be hard at all.

Correct. And for the new immediate form we can use ALTERNATIVE_3().


Juergen

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