Commit 1eaafe91 authored May 09, 2018 by Jim Mattson Committed by Radim Krčmář May 24, 2018

kvm: x86: IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES is always supported

If there is a possibility that a VM may migrate to a Skylake host,
then the hypervisor should report IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.RSBA[bit 2]
as being set (future work, of course). This implies that
CPUID.(EAX=7,ECX=0):EDX.ARCH_CAPABILITIES[bit 29] should be
set. Therefore, kvm should report this CPUID bit as being supported
whether or not the host supports it.  Userspace is still free to clear
the bit if it chooses.

For more information on RSBA, see Intel's white paper, "Retpoline: A
Branch Target Injection Mitigation" (Document Number 337131-001),
currently available at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199511

.

Since the IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR is emulated in kvm, there is no
dependency on hardware support for this feature.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Fixes: 28c1c9fa ("KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>

parent c4d21882

arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c

+5 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -495,6 +495,11 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_ent(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry, u32 function,
		entry->ecx &= ~F(PKU);
		entry->edx &= kvm_cpuid_7_0_edx_x86_features;
		cpuid_mask(&entry->edx, CPUID_7_EDX);
		/*
		* We emulate ARCH_CAPABILITIES in software even
		* if the host doesn't support it.
		*/
		entry->edx \|= F(ARCH_CAPABILITIES);
		} else {
		entry->ebx = 0;
		entry->ecx = 0;

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