KVM: x86: Add emulation of MSR_SMI_COUNT
authorLiran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:43:14 +0000 (13:43 +0200)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 08:26:44 +0000 (09:26 +0100)
commit52797bf9a875c4a30f846196386684e646e08a91
tree2343f9d68c7efc9519c7be36e8669d475b100c4f
parent431f5d4443964bcc58ac2e4c6fd8ace6dcd3a8d1
KVM: x86: Add emulation of MSR_SMI_COUNT

This MSR returns the number of #SMIs that occurred on CPU since
boot.

It was seen to be used frequently by ESXi guest.

Patch adds a new vcpu-arch specific var called smi_count to
save the number of #SMIs which occurred on CPU since boot.
It is exposed as a read-only MSR to guest (causing #GP
on wrmsr) in RDMSR/WRMSR emulation code.
MSR_SMI_COUNT is also added to emulated_msrs[] to make sure
user-space can save/restore it for migration purposes.

Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikita Leshenko <nikita.leshchenko@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh.davda@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c