Re: [PATCH] fix msr list

From: Glauber Costa
Date: Tue Oct 13 2009 - 08:32:00 EST


On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:50:27PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 01:24:50PM -0400, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > For a while now, we are issuing a rdmsr instruction to find out which msrs in our
> > save list are really supported by the underlying machine. However, it fails to account
> > for kvm-specific msrs, such as the pvclock ones.
> >
> > This patch moves then to the beginning of the list, and skip testing them.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied, thanks.
>
> But this alone won't fix migration to include the two pvclock MSRs
> right?
Yes, exactly. It will just make userspace see the correct list, but we'd
still have to take action based on it.

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