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Date:   Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:44:08 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: SVM: Clear MSR_TSC_AUX[63:32] on write
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> > Actually, shouldn't we just move wrmsrl() here? Assuming we're not sure
> > how (and if) upper 32 bits are going to be used, it would probably make
> > sense to not write them to the actual MSR...
> 
> Argh.  I got too clever in trying to minimize the patch deltas and "broke" this
> intermediate patch.  Once the user return framework is used, the result of
> setting the MSR is checked before setting svm->tsc_aux, i.e. don't set the
> virtual state if the real state could not be set.
> 
> I'm very tempted to add yet another patch to this mess to do:
> 
> 		if (wrmsrl_safe(MSR_TSC_AUX, data))
> 			return 1;
> 
> 		svm->tsc_aux = data;
> 
> And then this patch becomes:
> 
> 		data = (u32)data;
> 
> 		if (wrmsrl_safe(MSR_TSC_AUX, data))
> 			return 1;
> 
> 		svm->tsc_aux = data;
> 
> The above will also make patch 3 cleaner as it will preserve the ordering of
> truncating data and the wrmsr.

Ah, never mind, Paolo already pushed this to kvm/next with your above fix.