Re: [PATCH 1/5] KVM: x86: fix presentation of TSX feature in ARCH_CAPABILITIES
From: Jim Mattson
Date: Mon Nov 18 2019 - 15:49:05 EST
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:17 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> KVM does not implement MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL, so it must not be presented
> to the guests. It is also confusing to have !ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR &&
> !RTM && ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO: lack of MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL suggests TSX was not
> hidden (it actually was), yet the value says that TSX is not vulnerable
> to microarchitectural data sampling. Fix both.
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Ignore my previous comment. I see that the functionality I want is
coming later in this series.
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>