From 1eaafe91a0df4157521b6417b3dd8430bf5f52f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Mattson Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 14:29:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] kvm: x86: IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES is always supported MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Fixes: 28c1c9fabf48 ("KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář --- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c index 82055b90a8b3..beadfe6e6893 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c @@ -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; -- GitLab