Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] x86/arch_prctl Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID for controlling the CPUID instruction

[Kyle Huey]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Kyle Huey <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> rr (http://rr-project.org/), a userspace record-and-replay reverse-
> execution debugger, would like to trap and emulate the CPUID instruction.
> This would allow us to a) mask away certain hardware features that rr does
> not support (e.g. RDRAND) and b) enable trace portability across machines
> by providing constant results.
>
> Newer Intel CPUs (Ivy Bridge and later) can fault when CPUID is executed at
> CPL > 0.  Expose this capability to userspace as a new pair of arch_prctls,
> ARCH_GET_CPUID and ARCH_SET_CPUID, with two values, ARCH_CPUID_ENABLE and
> ARCH_CPUID_SIGSEGV.
>
> v6 did not get any feedback, so I included the changes since v5.
>
> Since v6:
> - Rebased to 4.9-rc1 (primarily over the new VDSO arch_prctls and the new pkey
>   entries in the syscall table)
>
> Since v5:
>
> Patch 3:
> - do_arch_prctl is again do_arch_prctl_common
>
> Patch 6:
> - Added static qualifiers on get/set_cpuid_mode
> - Braced ifs in disable/enable_cpuid
> - Renamed arch_post_exec to arch_setup_new_exec
>

A friendly ping.  Has anybody had an opportunity to look at this patch
series again?  Any feedback, positive or negative, would be greatly
appreciated.

- Kyle