Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.3 28/68] KVM: x86: Expose XSAVEERPTR to the guest

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Wed Oct 09 2019 - 17:40:54 EST


On 2019-10-09 23:15:07 [+0200], Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> > @@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_func(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entry, u32 function,
> >
> > /* cpuid 0x80000008.ebx */
> > const u32 kvm_cpuid_8000_0008_ebx_x86_features =
> > + F(XSAVEERPTR) |
> > F(WBNOINVD) | F(AMD_IBPB) | F(AMD_IBRS) | F(AMD_SSBD) | F(VIRT_SSBD) |
> > F(AMD_SSB_NO) | F(AMD_STIBP) | F(AMD_STIBP_ALWAYS_ON);
> >
> >
>
> Yet another example of a patch that shouldn't be stable material (in
> this case it's fine, but there can certainly be cases where just adding
> a single flag depends on core kernel changes).

Also, taking advantage of this feature requires changes which just
landed in qemu's master branch.

> Paolo

Sebastian