Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752280AbdLFMwl (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2017 07:52:41 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:52836 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751530AbdLFMwi (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2017 07:52:38 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 13:52:28 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Jan Dakinevich Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Denis V . Lunev" , Roman Kagan , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Alexander Shishkin , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini , Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= , Andi Kleen , Kan Liang , Stephane Eranian , Colin King , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Jin Yao , kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] KVM: x86/vPMU: ignore access to LBR-related MSRs Message-ID: <20171206125228.yyuqnmbu6wfdqldt@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1512560585-27263-1-git-send-email-jan.dakinevich@virtuozzo.com> <1512560585-27263-3-git-send-email-jan.dakinevich@virtuozzo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1512560585-27263-3-git-send-email-jan.dakinevich@virtuozzo.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170609 (1.8.3) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 294 Lines: 6 On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 02:43:03PM +0300, Jan Dakinevich wrote: > Windows Server 2016 Essentials (for yet unknown reason) attempts to > access MSR_LBR_TOS and other LBR-related registers at startup. These > are not currently hadled by KVM so the guest gets #GP and crashes. Shiny feature :-)