Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] x86 Test and expose CPUID faulting capabilities in /proc/cpuinfo

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 09/15/2016 03:11 PM, Kyle Huey wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On 15.09.16 at 12:05, <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 14/09/16 22:01, Kyle Huey wrote:
>>>> Xen advertises the underlying support for CPUID faulting but not does pass
>>>> through writes to the relevant MSR, nor does it virtualize it, so it does
>>>> not actually work. For now mask off the relevant bit on MSR_PLATFORM_INFO.
>>> Could you clarify in the commit message that it is PV guests that are
>>> affected.
>> What makes you think HVM ones aren't?
> Testing on EC2, HVM guests are affected as well.  Not sure what to do
> about that.

You could clear capability bit in xen_set_cpu_features() but of course
this assumes you will never again read MSR_PLATFORM_INFO.

-boris