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[PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED
boris.ostrovsky at oracle
Jan 20, 2021, 2:49 PM
Post #1 of 20 (193 views)
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When toolstack updates MSR policy, this MSR offset (which is the last
index in the hypervisor MSR range) is used to indicate hypervisor
behavior when guest accesses an MSR which is not explicitly emulated.

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
---
Changes in v2:
* Use 0x400002ff for MSR_UNHANDLED
* Pass ignore_msrs in msr_policy.value

xen/arch/x86/msr.c | 4 ++--
xen/include/xen/lib/x86/msr.h | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
xen/lib/x86/msr.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/msr.c b/xen/arch/x86/msr.c
index be8e36386250..433d16c80728 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/msr.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/msr.c
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ int guest_rdmsr(struct vcpu *v, uint32_t msr, uint64_t *val)
}

/* Fallthrough. */
- case 0x40000200 ... 0x400002ff:
+ case 0x40000200 ... 0x400002fe:
ret = guest_rdmsr_xen(v, msr, val);
break;

@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ int guest_wrmsr(struct vcpu *v, uint32_t msr, uint64_t val)
}

/* Fallthrough. */
- case 0x40000200 ... 0x400002ff:
+ case 0x40000200 ... 0x400002fe:
ret = guest_wrmsr_xen(v, msr, val);
break;

diff --git a/xen/include/xen/lib/x86/msr.h b/xen/include/xen/lib/x86/msr.h
index 48ba4a59c036..fbbb3b7ba870 100644
--- a/xen/include/xen/lib/x86/msr.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/lib/x86/msr.h
@@ -2,8 +2,21 @@
#ifndef XEN_LIB_X86_MSR_H
#define XEN_LIB_X86_MSR_H

+/*
+ * Behavior on accesses to MSRs that are not handled by emulation:
+ * 0 = return #GP, warning emitted
+ * 1 = read as 0, writes are dropped, no warning
+ * 2 = read as 0, writes are dropped, warning emitted
+ */
+#define MSR_UNHANDLED_NEVER 0
+#define MSR_UNHANDLED_SILENT 1
+#define MSR_UNHANDLED_VERBOSE 2
+
+/* MSR that is not explicitly processed by emulation */
+#define MSR_UNHANDLED 0x400002ff
+
/* Maximum number of MSRs written when serialising msr_policy. */
-#define MSR_MAX_SERIALISED_ENTRIES 2
+#define MSR_MAX_SERIALISED_ENTRIES 3

/* MSR policy object for shared per-domain MSRs */
struct msr_policy
@@ -45,6 +58,8 @@ struct msr_policy
bool taa_no:1;
};
} arch_caps;
+
+ uint8_t ignore_msrs;
};

#ifdef __XEN__
diff --git a/xen/lib/x86/msr.c b/xen/lib/x86/msr.c
index 7d71e92a380a..178203803946 100644
--- a/xen/lib/x86/msr.c
+++ b/xen/lib/x86/msr.c
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ int x86_msr_copy_to_buffer(const struct msr_policy *p,

COPY_MSR(MSR_INTEL_PLATFORM_INFO, p->platform_info.raw);
COPY_MSR(MSR_ARCH_CAPABILITIES, p->arch_caps.raw);
+ COPY_MSR(MSR_UNHANDLED, p->ignore_msrs);

#undef COPY_MSR

@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ int x86_msr_copy_from_buffer(struct msr_policy *p,

case MSR_INTEL_PLATFORM_INFO: ASSIGN(platform_info.raw); break;
case MSR_ARCH_CAPABILITIES: ASSIGN(arch_caps.raw); break;
+ case MSR_UNHANDLED: ASSIGN(ignore_msrs); break;

#undef ASSIGN

--
1.8.3.1
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
jbeulich at suse
Jan 22, 2021, 3:51 AM
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On 20.01.2021 23:49, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> --- a/xen/arch/x86/msr.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/msr.c
> @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ int guest_rdmsr(struct vcpu *v, uint32_t msr, uint64_t *val)
> }
>
> /* Fallthrough. */
> - case 0x40000200 ... 0x400002ff:
> + case 0x40000200 ... 0x400002fe:
> ret = guest_rdmsr_xen(v, msr, val);
> break;
>
> @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ int guest_wrmsr(struct vcpu *v, uint32_t msr, uint64_t val)
> }
>
> /* Fallthrough. */
> - case 0x40000200 ... 0x400002ff:
> + case 0x40000200 ... 0x400002fe:
> ret = guest_wrmsr_xen(v, msr, val);
> break;

For both of these, we need some kind of connection to
MSR_UNHANDLED. Could be a BUILD_BUG_ON() or an explicit
"case MSR_UNHANDLED:" (preventing someone "correcting" the
apparent mistake) or yet something else.

> --- a/xen/include/xen/lib/x86/msr.h
> +++ b/xen/include/xen/lib/x86/msr.h
> @@ -2,8 +2,21 @@
> #ifndef XEN_LIB_X86_MSR_H
> #define XEN_LIB_X86_MSR_H
>
> +/*
> + * Behavior on accesses to MSRs that are not handled by emulation:
> + * 0 = return #GP, warning emitted
> + * 1 = read as 0, writes are dropped, no warning
> + * 2 = read as 0, writes are dropped, warning emitted
> + */
> +#define MSR_UNHANDLED_NEVER 0
> +#define MSR_UNHANDLED_SILENT 1
> +#define MSR_UNHANDLED_VERBOSE 2
> +
> +/* MSR that is not explicitly processed by emulation */
> +#define MSR_UNHANDLED 0x400002ff

MSR indexes as well as definitions for MSR contents generally
live in asm-x86/msr-index.h. I think it would be better for
the above to also go there.

Additionally the comment on MSR_UNHANDLED should not only
say what will not happen for this index, but also what its
intended purpose is.

> @@ -45,6 +58,8 @@ struct msr_policy
> bool taa_no:1;
> };
> } arch_caps;
> +
> + uint8_t ignore_msrs;

Add a brief comment along the lines of /* MSR_UNHANDLED_* */
here to make the connection to intended values?

Also, Andrew, (I think I did say so before) - I definitely
would want your general consent with this model, as what gets
altered here is almost all relatively recent contributions
by you. Nor would I exclude the approach being controversial.

Jan
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
boris.ostrovsky at oracle
Jan 22, 2021, 10:56 AM
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On 1/22/21 6:51 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 20.01.2021 23:49, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> --- a/xen/arch/x86/msr.c
>> +++ b/xen/arch/x86/msr.c
>> @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ int guest_rdmsr(struct vcpu *v, uint32_t msr, uint64_t *val)
>> }
>>
>> /* Fallthrough. */
>> - case 0x40000200 ... 0x400002ff:
>> + case 0x40000200 ... 0x400002fe:
>> ret = guest_rdmsr_xen(v, msr, val);
>> break;
>>
>> @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ int guest_wrmsr(struct vcpu *v, uint32_t msr, uint64_t val)
>> }
>>
>> /* Fallthrough. */
>> - case 0x40000200 ... 0x400002ff:
>> + case 0x40000200 ... 0x400002fe:
>> ret = guest_wrmsr_xen(v, msr, val);
>> break;
>
> For both of these, we need some kind of connection to
> MSR_UNHANDLED. Could be a BUILD_BUG_ON() or an explicit
> "case MSR_UNHANDLED:" (preventing someone "correcting" the
> apparent mistake) or yet something else.


I actually meant to add a comment there but forgot.

I'll add an explicit 'case'.


>
>> --- a/xen/include/xen/lib/x86/msr.h
>> +++ b/xen/include/xen/lib/x86/msr.h
>> @@ -2,8 +2,21 @@
>> #ifndef XEN_LIB_X86_MSR_H
>> #define XEN_LIB_X86_MSR_H
>>
>> +/*
>> + * Behavior on accesses to MSRs that are not handled by emulation:
>> + * 0 = return #GP, warning emitted
>> + * 1 = read as 0, writes are dropped, no warning
>> + * 2 = read as 0, writes are dropped, warning emitted
>> + */
>> +#define MSR_UNHANDLED_NEVER 0
>> +#define MSR_UNHANDLED_SILENT 1
>> +#define MSR_UNHANDLED_VERBOSE 2
>> +
>> +/* MSR that is not explicitly processed by emulation */
>> +#define MSR_UNHANDLED 0x400002ff
>
> MSR indexes as well as definitions for MSR contents generally
> live in asm-x86/msr-index.h. I think it would be better for
> the above to also go there.
>


I didn't put it there because I felt that file is for "real" (including hypervisor range) MSRs. But I can move it to msr-index.h


-boris
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
boris.ostrovsky at oracle
Feb 2, 2021, 9:01 AM
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On 1/22/21 6:51 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Also, Andrew, (I think I did say so before) - I definitely
> would want your general consent with this model, as what gets
> altered here is almost all relatively recent contributions
> by you. Nor would I exclude the approach being controversial.
>

Andrew, ping?


-boris
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
roger.pau at citrix
Feb 18, 2021, 2:51 AM
Post #5 of 20 (192 views)
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On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:49:10PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> When toolstack updates MSR policy, this MSR offset (which is the last
> index in the hypervisor MSR range) is used to indicate hypervisor
> behavior when guest accesses an MSR which is not explicitly emulated.

It's kind of weird to use an MSR to store this. I assume this is done
for migration reasons?

Isn't is possible to convey this data in the xl migration stream
instead of having to pack it with MSRs?

Thanks, Roger.
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
boris.ostrovsky at oracle
Feb 19, 2021, 6:56 AM
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On 2/18/21 5:51 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:49:10PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> When toolstack updates MSR policy, this MSR offset (which is the last
>> index in the hypervisor MSR range) is used to indicate hypervisor
>> behavior when guest accesses an MSR which is not explicitly emulated.
> It's kind of weird to use an MSR to store this. I assume this is done
> for migration reasons?


Not really. It just seemed to me that MSR policy is the logical place to do that. Because it *is* a policy of how to deal with such accesses, isn't it?


> Isn't is possible to convey this data in the xl migration stream
> instead of having to pack it with MSRs?


I haven't looked at this but again --- the feature itself has nothing to do with migration. The fact that folding it into policy makes migration of this information "just work" is just a nice side benefit of this implementation.


-boris
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
roger.pau at citrix
Feb 22, 2021, 3:08 AM
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:56:32AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>
> On 2/18/21 5:51 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:49:10PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >> When toolstack updates MSR policy, this MSR offset (which is the last
> >> index in the hypervisor MSR range) is used to indicate hypervisor
> >> behavior when guest accesses an MSR which is not explicitly emulated.
> > It's kind of weird to use an MSR to store this. I assume this is done
> > for migration reasons?
>
>
> Not really. It just seemed to me that MSR policy is the logical place to do that. Because it *is* a policy of how to deal with such accesses, isn't it?

I agree that using the msr_policy seems like the most suitable place
to convey this information between the toolstack and Xen. I wonder if
it would be fine to have fields in msr_policy that don't directly
translate into an MSR value?

But having such a list of ignored MSRs in msr_policy makes the whole
get/set logic a bit weird, as the user would have to provide a buffer
in order to get the list of ignored MSRs.

>
> > Isn't is possible to convey this data in the xl migration stream
> > instead of having to pack it with MSRs?
>
>
> I haven't looked at this but again --- the feature itself has nothing to do with migration. The fact that folding it into policy makes migration of this information "just work" is just a nice side benefit of this implementation.

IMO it feels slightly weird that we have to use a MSR (MSR_UNHANDLED)
to store this option, seems like wasting an MSR index when there's
really no need for it to be stored in an MSR, as we don't expose it to
guests.

It would seem more natural for such option to live in arch_domain as a
rangeset for example.

Maybe introduce a new DOMCTL to set it?

#define XEN_DOMCTL_msr_set_ignore ...
struct xen_domctl_msr_set_ignore {
uint32_t index;
uint32_t size;
};

Thanks, Roger.
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
boris.ostrovsky at oracle
Feb 22, 2021, 1:19 PM
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On 2/22/21 6:08 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:56:32AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 2/18/21 5:51 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:49:10PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>> When toolstack updates MSR policy, this MSR offset (which is the last
>>>> index in the hypervisor MSR range) is used to indicate hypervisor
>>>> behavior when guest accesses an MSR which is not explicitly emulated.
>>> It's kind of weird to use an MSR to store this. I assume this is done
>>> for migration reasons?
>>
>> Not really. It just seemed to me that MSR policy is the logical place to do that. Because it *is* a policy of how to deal with such accesses, isn't it?
> I agree that using the msr_policy seems like the most suitable place
> to convey this information between the toolstack and Xen. I wonder if
> it would be fine to have fields in msr_policy that don't directly
> translate into an MSR value?


We have xen_msr_entry_t.flags that we can use when passing policy array back and forth. Then we can ignore xen_msr_entry_t.idx for that entry (although in earlier version of this series Jan preferred to use idx and leave flags alone).


>
> But having such a list of ignored MSRs in msr_policy makes the whole
> get/set logic a bit weird, as the user would have to provide a buffer
> in order to get the list of ignored MSRs.


If we go with ranges/lists of ignored MSRs then we will need to have ignore_msrs as a rangeset in msr_policy, not as (current) uint8. And xen_msr_entry_t will need to have a range as opposed to single index. Or maybe I don't understand what you are referring to as get/set logic.


But I would like to make sure we really want to support such ranges, I am a little concerned about over-engineering this (especially wrt migration, I think it will need marshalling/unmarshalling)


>>> Isn't is possible to convey this data in the xl migration stream
>>> instead of having to pack it with MSRs?
>>
>> I haven't looked at this but again --- the feature itself has nothing to do with migration. The fact that folding it into policy makes migration of this information "just work" is just a nice side benefit of this implementation.
> IMO it feels slightly weird that we have to use a MSR (MSR_UNHANDLED)
> to store this option, seems like wasting an MSR index when there's
> really no need for it to be stored in an MSR, as we don't expose it to
> guests.
>
> It would seem more natural for such option to live in arch_domain as a
> rangeset for example.
>
> Maybe introduce a new DOMCTL to set it?
>
> #define XEN_DOMCTL_msr_set_ignore ...
> struct xen_domctl_msr_set_ignore {
> uint32_t index;
> uint32_t size;
> };


That will work too but this is adding 2 new domctls (I think we will need a "get" too) whereas with policy we use existing interface.


-boris
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
jbeulich at suse
Feb 22, 2021, 11:57 PM
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On 22.02.2021 22:19, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>
> On 2/22/21 6:08 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:56:32AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>> On 2/18/21 5:51 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:49:10PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>>> When toolstack updates MSR policy, this MSR offset (which is the last
>>>>> index in the hypervisor MSR range) is used to indicate hypervisor
>>>>> behavior when guest accesses an MSR which is not explicitly emulated.
>>>> It's kind of weird to use an MSR to store this. I assume this is done
>>>> for migration reasons?
>>>
>>> Not really. It just seemed to me that MSR policy is the logical place to do that. Because it *is* a policy of how to deal with such accesses, isn't it?
>> I agree that using the msr_policy seems like the most suitable place
>> to convey this information between the toolstack and Xen. I wonder if
>> it would be fine to have fields in msr_policy that don't directly
>> translate into an MSR value?
>
>
> We have xen_msr_entry_t.flags that we can use when passing policy array back and forth. Then we can ignore xen_msr_entry_t.idx for that entry (although in earlier version of this series Jan preferred to use idx and leave flags alone).

Which, just to clarify, was not the least because of the flags
field being per-entry, i.e. per MSR, while here we want a global
indicator.

Jan
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
roger.pau at citrix
Feb 23, 2021, 1:34 AM
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:57:00AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 22.02.2021 22:19, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >
> > On 2/22/21 6:08 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> >> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:56:32AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >>> On 2/18/21 5:51 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:49:10PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >>>>> When toolstack updates MSR policy, this MSR offset (which is the last
> >>>>> index in the hypervisor MSR range) is used to indicate hypervisor
> >>>>> behavior when guest accesses an MSR which is not explicitly emulated.
> >>>> It's kind of weird to use an MSR to store this. I assume this is done
> >>>> for migration reasons?
> >>>
> >>> Not really. It just seemed to me that MSR policy is the logical place to do that. Because it *is* a policy of how to deal with such accesses, isn't it?
> >> I agree that using the msr_policy seems like the most suitable place
> >> to convey this information between the toolstack and Xen. I wonder if
> >> it would be fine to have fields in msr_policy that don't directly
> >> translate into an MSR value?
> >
> >
> > We have xen_msr_entry_t.flags that we can use when passing policy array back and forth. Then we can ignore xen_msr_entry_t.idx for that entry (although in earlier version of this series Jan preferred to use idx and leave flags alone).
>
> Which, just to clarify, was not the least because of the flags
> field being per-entry, i.e. per MSR, while here we want a global
> indicator.

We could exploit a bit the xen_msr_entry_t structure and use it
like:

typedef struct xen_msr_entry {
uint32_t idx;
#define XEN_MSR_IGNORE (1u << 0)
uint32_t flags;
uint64_t val;
} xen_msr_entry_t;

Then use the idx and val fields to signal the start and size of the
range to ignore accesses to when XEN_MSR_IGNORE is set in the flags
field?

xen_msr_entry_t = {
.idx = 0,
.val = 0xffffffff,
.flags = XEN_MSR_IGNORE,
};

Would be equivalent to ignoring accesses to the whole MSR range.

This would allow selectively selecting which MSRs to ignore, while
not wasting a MSR itself to convey the information?

It would still need to be stored somewhere in the Xen internal domain
structure using a rangeset I think, which could be translated back and
forth into this xen_msr_entry_t format.

Roger.
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
jbeulich at suse
Feb 23, 2021, 2:15 AM
Post #11 of 20 (191 views)
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On 23.02.2021 10:34, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:57:00AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 22.02.2021 22:19, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2/22/21 6:08 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:56:32AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>>> On 2/18/21 5:51 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:49:10PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>>>>> When toolstack updates MSR policy, this MSR offset (which is the last
>>>>>>> index in the hypervisor MSR range) is used to indicate hypervisor
>>>>>>> behavior when guest accesses an MSR which is not explicitly emulated.
>>>>>> It's kind of weird to use an MSR to store this. I assume this is done
>>>>>> for migration reasons?
>>>>>
>>>>> Not really. It just seemed to me that MSR policy is the logical place to do that. Because it *is* a policy of how to deal with such accesses, isn't it?
>>>> I agree that using the msr_policy seems like the most suitable place
>>>> to convey this information between the toolstack and Xen. I wonder if
>>>> it would be fine to have fields in msr_policy that don't directly
>>>> translate into an MSR value?
>>>
>>>
>>> We have xen_msr_entry_t.flags that we can use when passing policy array back and forth. Then we can ignore xen_msr_entry_t.idx for that entry (although in earlier version of this series Jan preferred to use idx and leave flags alone).
>>
>> Which, just to clarify, was not the least because of the flags
>> field being per-entry, i.e. per MSR, while here we want a global
>> indicator.
>
> We could exploit a bit the xen_msr_entry_t structure and use it
> like:
>
> typedef struct xen_msr_entry {
> uint32_t idx;
> #define XEN_MSR_IGNORE (1u << 0)
> uint32_t flags;
> uint64_t val;
> } xen_msr_entry_t;
>
> Then use the idx and val fields to signal the start and size of the
> range to ignore accesses to when XEN_MSR_IGNORE is set in the flags
> field?
>
> xen_msr_entry_t = {
> .idx = 0,
> .val = 0xffffffff,
> .flags = XEN_MSR_IGNORE,
> };
>
> Would be equivalent to ignoring accesses to the whole MSR range.
>
> This would allow selectively selecting which MSRs to ignore, while
> not wasting a MSR itself to convey the information?

Hmm, yes, the added flexibility would be nice from an abstract pov
(not sure how relevant it would be to Solaris'es issue). But my
dislike of using a flag which is meaningless in ordinary entries
remains, as was voiced against Boris'es original version.

Andrew - afaict you've been completely silent on this thread so
far. What's your view?

Jan
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
roger.pau at citrix
Feb 23, 2021, 4:17 AM
Post #12 of 20 (191 views)
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:15:31AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 23.02.2021 10:34, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:57:00AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> On 22.02.2021 22:19, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 2/22/21 6:08 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:56:32AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >>>>> On 2/18/21 5:51 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> >>>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:49:10PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >>>>>>> When toolstack updates MSR policy, this MSR offset (which is the last
> >>>>>>> index in the hypervisor MSR range) is used to indicate hypervisor
> >>>>>>> behavior when guest accesses an MSR which is not explicitly emulated.
> >>>>>> It's kind of weird to use an MSR to store this. I assume this is done
> >>>>>> for migration reasons?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Not really. It just seemed to me that MSR policy is the logical place to do that. Because it *is* a policy of how to deal with such accesses, isn't it?
> >>>> I agree that using the msr_policy seems like the most suitable place
> >>>> to convey this information between the toolstack and Xen. I wonder if
> >>>> it would be fine to have fields in msr_policy that don't directly
> >>>> translate into an MSR value?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> We have xen_msr_entry_t.flags that we can use when passing policy array back and forth. Then we can ignore xen_msr_entry_t.idx for that entry (although in earlier version of this series Jan preferred to use idx and leave flags alone).
> >>
> >> Which, just to clarify, was not the least because of the flags
> >> field being per-entry, i.e. per MSR, while here we want a global
> >> indicator.
> >
> > We could exploit a bit the xen_msr_entry_t structure and use it
> > like:
> >
> > typedef struct xen_msr_entry {
> > uint32_t idx;
> > #define XEN_MSR_IGNORE (1u << 0)
> > uint32_t flags;
> > uint64_t val;
> > } xen_msr_entry_t;
> >
> > Then use the idx and val fields to signal the start and size of the
> > range to ignore accesses to when XEN_MSR_IGNORE is set in the flags
> > field?
> >
> > xen_msr_entry_t = {
> > .idx = 0,
> > .val = 0xffffffff,
> > .flags = XEN_MSR_IGNORE,
> > };
> >
> > Would be equivalent to ignoring accesses to the whole MSR range.
> >
> > This would allow selectively selecting which MSRs to ignore, while
> > not wasting a MSR itself to convey the information?
>
> Hmm, yes, the added flexibility would be nice from an abstract pov
> (not sure how relevant it would be to Solaris'es issue). But my
> dislike of using a flag which is meaningless in ordinary entries
> remains, as was voiced against Boris'es original version.

I understand the flags field is meaningless for regular MSRs, but I
don't see why it would be an issue to start using it for this specific
case of registering ranges of ignored MSRs. It certainly seems better
than hijacking an MSR index (MSR_UNHANDLED).

Thanks, Roger.
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
jbeulich at suse
Feb 23, 2021, 5:23 AM
Post #13 of 20 (191 views)
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On 23.02.2021 13:17, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:15:31AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 23.02.2021 10:34, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:57:00AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 22.02.2021 22:19, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2/22/21 6:08 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:56:32AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2/18/21 5:51 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:49:10PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>>>>>>> When toolstack updates MSR policy, this MSR offset (which is the last
>>>>>>>>> index in the hypervisor MSR range) is used to indicate hypervisor
>>>>>>>>> behavior when guest accesses an MSR which is not explicitly emulated.
>>>>>>>> It's kind of weird to use an MSR to store this. I assume this is done
>>>>>>>> for migration reasons?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Not really. It just seemed to me that MSR policy is the logical place to do that. Because it *is* a policy of how to deal with such accesses, isn't it?
>>>>>> I agree that using the msr_policy seems like the most suitable place
>>>>>> to convey this information between the toolstack and Xen. I wonder if
>>>>>> it would be fine to have fields in msr_policy that don't directly
>>>>>> translate into an MSR value?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We have xen_msr_entry_t.flags that we can use when passing policy array back and forth. Then we can ignore xen_msr_entry_t.idx for that entry (although in earlier version of this series Jan preferred to use idx and leave flags alone).
>>>>
>>>> Which, just to clarify, was not the least because of the flags
>>>> field being per-entry, i.e. per MSR, while here we want a global
>>>> indicator.
>>>
>>> We could exploit a bit the xen_msr_entry_t structure and use it
>>> like:
>>>
>>> typedef struct xen_msr_entry {
>>> uint32_t idx;
>>> #define XEN_MSR_IGNORE (1u << 0)
>>> uint32_t flags;
>>> uint64_t val;
>>> } xen_msr_entry_t;
>>>
>>> Then use the idx and val fields to signal the start and size of the
>>> range to ignore accesses to when XEN_MSR_IGNORE is set in the flags
>>> field?
>>>
>>> xen_msr_entry_t = {
>>> .idx = 0,
>>> .val = 0xffffffff,
>>> .flags = XEN_MSR_IGNORE,
>>> };
>>>
>>> Would be equivalent to ignoring accesses to the whole MSR range.
>>>
>>> This would allow selectively selecting which MSRs to ignore, while
>>> not wasting a MSR itself to convey the information?
>>
>> Hmm, yes, the added flexibility would be nice from an abstract pov
>> (not sure how relevant it would be to Solaris'es issue). But my
>> dislike of using a flag which is meaningless in ordinary entries
>> remains, as was voiced against Boris'es original version.
>
> I understand the flags field is meaningless for regular MSRs, but I
> don't see why it would be an issue to start using it for this specific
> case of registering ranges of ignored MSRs.

It's not an "issue", it is - as said - my dislike. However, the way
it is in your proposal it is perhaps indeed not as bad as in Boris'es
original one: The flag now designates the purpose of the entry, and
the other two fields still have a meaning. Hence I was wrong to state
that it's "meaningless" - it now is required to be clear for
"ordinary" entries.

In principle there could then also be multiple such entries / ranges.

> It certainly seems better than hijacking an MSR index (MSR_UNHANDLED).

Not sure.

Jan
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
boris.ostrovsky at oracle
Feb 23, 2021, 7:39 AM
Post #14 of 20 (191 views)
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On 2/23/21 8:23 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 23.02.2021 13:17, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:15:31AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> On 23.02.2021 10:34, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:57:00AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 22.02.2021 22:19, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>>>> On 2/22/21 6:08 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:56:32AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2/18/21 5:51 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:49:10PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> When toolstack updates MSR policy, this MSR offset (which is the last
>>>>>>>>>> index in the hypervisor MSR range) is used to indicate hypervisor
>>>>>>>>>> behavior when guest accesses an MSR which is not explicitly emulated.
>>>>>>>>> It's kind of weird to use an MSR to store this. I assume this is done
>>>>>>>>> for migration reasons?
>>>>>>>> Not really. It just seemed to me that MSR policy is the logical place to do that. Because it *is* a policy of how to deal with such accesses, isn't it?
>>>>>>> I agree that using the msr_policy seems like the most suitable place
>>>>>>> to convey this information between the toolstack and Xen. I wonder if
>>>>>>> it would be fine to have fields in msr_policy that don't directly
>>>>>>> translate into an MSR value?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have xen_msr_entry_t.flags that we can use when passing policy array back and forth. Then we can ignore xen_msr_entry_t.idx for that entry (although in earlier version of this series Jan preferred to use idx and leave flags alone).
>>>>> Which, just to clarify, was not the least because of the flags
>>>>> field being per-entry, i.e. per MSR, while here we want a global
>>>>> indicator.
>>>> We could exploit a bit the xen_msr_entry_t structure and use it
>>>> like:
>>>>
>>>> typedef struct xen_msr_entry {
>>>> uint32_t idx;
>>>> #define XEN_MSR_IGNORE (1u << 0)
>>>> uint32_t flags;
>>>> uint64_t val;
>>>> } xen_msr_entry_t;
>>>>
>>>> Then use the idx and val fields to signal the start and size of the
>>>> range to ignore accesses to when XEN_MSR_IGNORE is set in the flags
>>>> field?
>>>>
>>>> xen_msr_entry_t = {
>>>> .idx = 0,
>>>> .val = 0xffffffff,
>>>> .flags = XEN_MSR_IGNORE,
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> Would be equivalent to ignoring accesses to the whole MSR range.
>>>>
>>>> This would allow selectively selecting which MSRs to ignore, while
>>>> not wasting a MSR itself to convey the information?
>>> Hmm, yes, the added flexibility would be nice from an abstract pov
>>> (not sure how relevant it would be to Solaris'es issue). But my
>>> dislike of using a flag which is meaningless in ordinary entries
>>> remains, as was voiced against Boris'es original version.
>> I understand the flags field is meaningless for regular MSRs, but I
>> don't see why it would be an issue to start using it for this specific
>> case of registering ranges of ignored MSRs.
> It's not an "issue", it is - as said - my dislike. However, the way
> it is in your proposal it is perhaps indeed not as bad as in Boris'es
> original one: The flag now designates the purpose of the entry, and
> the other two fields still have a meaning. Hence I was wrong to state
> that it's "meaningless" - it now is required to be clear for
> "ordinary" entries.
>
> In principle there could then also be multiple such entries / ranges.


TBH I am not sold on usefulness of multiple ranges but if both of you feel it can be handy I'll do that, using Roger's proposal above. (Would it make sense to make val a union with, say, size or should the context be clear from flag's value?)


Before I do that though --- what was the conclusion on verbosity control?

 

-boris
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
jbeulich at suse
Feb 23, 2021, 8:10 AM
Post #15 of 20 (191 views)
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On 23.02.2021 16:39, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>
> On 2/23/21 8:23 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 23.02.2021 13:17, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:15:31AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 23.02.2021 10:34, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:57:00AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>> On 22.02.2021 22:19, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2/22/21 6:08 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:56:32AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 2/18/21 5:51 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:49:10PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> When toolstack updates MSR policy, this MSR offset (which is the last
>>>>>>>>>>> index in the hypervisor MSR range) is used to indicate hypervisor
>>>>>>>>>>> behavior when guest accesses an MSR which is not explicitly emulated.
>>>>>>>>>> It's kind of weird to use an MSR to store this. I assume this is done
>>>>>>>>>> for migration reasons?
>>>>>>>>> Not really. It just seemed to me that MSR policy is the logical place to do that. Because it *is* a policy of how to deal with such accesses, isn't it?
>>>>>>>> I agree that using the msr_policy seems like the most suitable place
>>>>>>>> to convey this information between the toolstack and Xen. I wonder if
>>>>>>>> it would be fine to have fields in msr_policy that don't directly
>>>>>>>> translate into an MSR value?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We have xen_msr_entry_t.flags that we can use when passing policy array back and forth. Then we can ignore xen_msr_entry_t.idx for that entry (although in earlier version of this series Jan preferred to use idx and leave flags alone).
>>>>>> Which, just to clarify, was not the least because of the flags
>>>>>> field being per-entry, i.e. per MSR, while here we want a global
>>>>>> indicator.
>>>>> We could exploit a bit the xen_msr_entry_t structure and use it
>>>>> like:
>>>>>
>>>>> typedef struct xen_msr_entry {
>>>>> uint32_t idx;
>>>>> #define XEN_MSR_IGNORE (1u << 0)
>>>>> uint32_t flags;
>>>>> uint64_t val;
>>>>> } xen_msr_entry_t;
>>>>>
>>>>> Then use the idx and val fields to signal the start and size of the
>>>>> range to ignore accesses to when XEN_MSR_IGNORE is set in the flags
>>>>> field?
>>>>>
>>>>> xen_msr_entry_t = {
>>>>> .idx = 0,
>>>>> .val = 0xffffffff,
>>>>> .flags = XEN_MSR_IGNORE,
>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>> Would be equivalent to ignoring accesses to the whole MSR range.
>>>>>
>>>>> This would allow selectively selecting which MSRs to ignore, while
>>>>> not wasting a MSR itself to convey the information?
>>>> Hmm, yes, the added flexibility would be nice from an abstract pov
>>>> (not sure how relevant it would be to Solaris'es issue). But my
>>>> dislike of using a flag which is meaningless in ordinary entries
>>>> remains, as was voiced against Boris'es original version.
>>> I understand the flags field is meaningless for regular MSRs, but I
>>> don't see why it would be an issue to start using it for this specific
>>> case of registering ranges of ignored MSRs.
>> It's not an "issue", it is - as said - my dislike. However, the way
>> it is in your proposal it is perhaps indeed not as bad as in Boris'es
>> original one: The flag now designates the purpose of the entry, and
>> the other two fields still have a meaning. Hence I was wrong to state
>> that it's "meaningless" - it now is required to be clear for
>> "ordinary" entries.
>>
>> In principle there could then also be multiple such entries / ranges.
>
>
> TBH I am not sold on usefulness of multiple ranges but if both of
> you feel it can be handy I'll do that, using Roger's proposal above.

As indicated I really think an opinion from Andrew would be helpful.

> (Would it make sense to make val a union with, say, size or should
> the context be clear from flag's value?)

I'd recommend against this, unless you were to also name the upper
half of the 64-bit field so you can check that part to be zero.
Plus unions are generally not nice to be introduced into public
headers for already existing types.

> Before I do that though --- what was the conclusion on verbosity
> control?

Not sure - afaict the conclusion was that we still don't really
agree. Roger?

Jan
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
roger.pau at citrix
Feb 23, 2021, 8:11 AM
Post #16 of 20 (191 views)
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:39:48AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>
> On 2/23/21 8:23 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > On 23.02.2021 13:17, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:15:31AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 23.02.2021 10:34, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:57:00AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>>> On 22.02.2021 22:19, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >>>>>> On 2/22/21 6:08 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:56:32AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On 2/18/21 5:51 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:49:10PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> When toolstack updates MSR policy, this MSR offset (which is the last
> >>>>>>>>>> index in the hypervisor MSR range) is used to indicate hypervisor
> >>>>>>>>>> behavior when guest accesses an MSR which is not explicitly emulated.
> >>>>>>>>> It's kind of weird to use an MSR to store this. I assume this is done
> >>>>>>>>> for migration reasons?
> >>>>>>>> Not really. It just seemed to me that MSR policy is the logical place to do that. Because it *is* a policy of how to deal with such accesses, isn't it?
> >>>>>>> I agree that using the msr_policy seems like the most suitable place
> >>>>>>> to convey this information between the toolstack and Xen. I wonder if
> >>>>>>> it would be fine to have fields in msr_policy that don't directly
> >>>>>>> translate into an MSR value?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> We have xen_msr_entry_t.flags that we can use when passing policy array back and forth. Then we can ignore xen_msr_entry_t.idx for that entry (although in earlier version of this series Jan preferred to use idx and leave flags alone).
> >>>>> Which, just to clarify, was not the least because of the flags
> >>>>> field being per-entry, i.e. per MSR, while here we want a global
> >>>>> indicator.
> >>>> We could exploit a bit the xen_msr_entry_t structure and use it
> >>>> like:
> >>>>
> >>>> typedef struct xen_msr_entry {
> >>>> uint32_t idx;
> >>>> #define XEN_MSR_IGNORE (1u << 0)
> >>>> uint32_t flags;
> >>>> uint64_t val;
> >>>> } xen_msr_entry_t;
> >>>>
> >>>> Then use the idx and val fields to signal the start and size of the
> >>>> range to ignore accesses to when XEN_MSR_IGNORE is set in the flags
> >>>> field?
> >>>>
> >>>> xen_msr_entry_t = {
> >>>> .idx = 0,
> >>>> .val = 0xffffffff,
> >>>> .flags = XEN_MSR_IGNORE,
> >>>> };
> >>>>
> >>>> Would be equivalent to ignoring accesses to the whole MSR range.
> >>>>
> >>>> This would allow selectively selecting which MSRs to ignore, while
> >>>> not wasting a MSR itself to convey the information?
> >>> Hmm, yes, the added flexibility would be nice from an abstract pov
> >>> (not sure how relevant it would be to Solaris'es issue). But my
> >>> dislike of using a flag which is meaningless in ordinary entries
> >>> remains, as was voiced against Boris'es original version.
> >> I understand the flags field is meaningless for regular MSRs, but I
> >> don't see why it would be an issue to start using it for this specific
> >> case of registering ranges of ignored MSRs.
> > It's not an "issue", it is - as said - my dislike. However, the way
> > it is in your proposal it is perhaps indeed not as bad as in Boris'es
> > original one: The flag now designates the purpose of the entry, and
> > the other two fields still have a meaning. Hence I was wrong to state
> > that it's "meaningless" - it now is required to be clear for
> > "ordinary" entries.
> >
> > In principle there could then also be multiple such entries / ranges.
>
>
> TBH I am not sold on usefulness of multiple ranges but if both of you feel it can be handy I'll do that, using Roger's proposal above. (Would it make sense to make val a union with, say, size or should the context be clear from flag's value?)

Doing an union with { val, size } would be fine for me, I'm also fine
with not doing it though.

>
> Before I do that though --- what was the conclusion on verbosity control?

Ideally I would like to find a way to have a more generic interface to
change verbosity level on a per-guest basis, but I haven't looked at
all about how to do that, neither I think it would be acceptable to
put that burden on you.

Maybe we could introduce another flag to set whether ignored MSRs
should be logged, as that would be easier to implement?

I think in that case we could enforce that either all ranges have the
flag set or not, in order to prevent ending up tracking two different
ranges of ignored MSRs, one that triggers a message and another one
that doesn't.

Thanks, Roger.
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
boris.ostrovsky at oracle
Feb 23, 2021, 8:40 AM
Post #17 of 20 (191 views)
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On 2/23/21 11:11 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:39:48AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>
>> Before I do that though --- what was the conclusion on verbosity control?
> Ideally I would like to find a way to have a more generic interface to
> change verbosity level on a per-guest basis, but I haven't looked at
> all about how to do that, neither I think it would be acceptable to
> put that burden on you.
>
> Maybe we could introduce another flag to set whether ignored MSRs
> should be logged, as that would be easier to implement?


Probably.


    msr_ignore=["verbose=<bool>", "<range>", "range>", ...]


-boris


>
> I think in that case we could enforce that either all ranges have the
> flag set or not, in order to prevent ending up tracking two different
> ranges of ignored MSRs, one that triggers a message and another one
> that doesn't.
>
> Thanks, Roger.
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
roger.pau at citrix
Feb 23, 2021, 10:00 AM
Post #18 of 20 (191 views)
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 05:10:16PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 23.02.2021 16:39, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > Before I do that though --- what was the conclusion on verbosity
> > control?
>
> Not sure - afaict the conclusion was that we still don't really
> agree. Roger?

As I said on my reply to Boris, I would really like to have a more
generic way of doing this kind of per-domain verbosity level, but I
don't think it would be fair to ask Boris to implement this. Xen
likely needs a way to print issues with MSRs accesses in 4.15 on a
per-domain basis, so going for a MSR specific solution would be
acceptable given the time frame. I think Boris made a proposal for a
solution on another email, let me go look at that.

Thanks, Roger.
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
roger.pau at citrix
Feb 23, 2021, 10:02 AM
Post #19 of 20 (191 views)
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:40:07AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>
> On 2/23/21 11:11 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:39:48AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >
> >> Before I do that though --- what was the conclusion on verbosity control?
> > Ideally I would like to find a way to have a more generic interface to
> > change verbosity level on a per-guest basis, but I haven't looked at
> > all about how to do that, neither I think it would be acceptable to
> > put that burden on you.
> >
> > Maybe we could introduce another flag to set whether ignored MSRs
> > should be logged, as that would be easier to implement?
>
>
> Probably.
>
>
>     msr_ignore=["verbose=<bool>", "<range>", "range>", ...]

I think just adding a new option will be easier to parse in xl rather
than placing it in the list of MSR ranges:

msr_ignore=["<range>", "range>", ...]
msr_ignore_verbose=<boolean>

Seems easier to implement IMO.

Thanks, Roger.
Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] x86: Introduce MSR_UNHANDLED [ In reply to ]
boris.ostrovsky at oracle
Feb 23, 2021, 10:45 AM
Post #20 of 20 (191 views)
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On 2/23/21 1:02 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:40:07AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 2/23/21 11:11 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:39:48AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> Before I do that though --- what was the conclusion on verbosity control?
>>> Ideally I would like to find a way to have a more generic interface to
>>> change verbosity level on a per-guest basis, but I haven't looked at
>>> all about how to do that, neither I think it would be acceptable to
>>> put that burden on you.
>>>
>>> Maybe we could introduce another flag to set whether ignored MSRs
>>> should be logged, as that would be easier to implement?
>>
>> Probably.
>>
>>
>>     msr_ignore=["verbose=<bool>", "<range>", "range>", ...]
> I think just adding a new option will be easier to parse in xl rather
> than placing it in the list of MSR ranges:
>
> msr_ignore=["<range>", "range>", ...]
> msr_ignore_verbose=<boolean>
>
> Seems easier to implement IMO.


I haven't looked at what parsing support is available in xl. If I don't find anything useful (and I give up quickly ;-) ) I can use separate options.



-boris

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