On 06/01/2020 16:39, Jan Beulich wrote: > The dependency on a new EFER bit implies that we need to set that bit > ourselves in order to be able to successfully invoke the insn. > > Also once again introduce the SVM related constants at this occasion. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> > --- > RFC: The exact meaning of the PM stating "any errors encountered by > those stores have been signaled to associated error logging > resources" is unclear. Depending on what this entails, blindly > enabling EFER.MCOMMIT may not be a good idea. Hence the RFC.
From what I gather, this is only going to be useful in combination with future features. While I have no specific concerns code wise, I'd recommend deferring the patch until we have a better idea of how it is supposed to be used. (Especially given the PCOMMIT debacle on Intel.) ~Andrew _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
