Re: [PATCH v4] KVM: x86: Fix KVM_GET_CPUID2 ioctl to return cpuid entries count

[Denis V. Lunev]

On 5/4/21 10:23 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 03/05/21 21:18, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
>> On 5/3/21 5:54 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> On 29/04/21 03:00, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021, Valeriy Vdovin wrote:
>>>>> It's very explicit by the code that it was designed to receive some
>>>>> small number of entries to return E2BIG along with the corrected
>>>>> number.
>>>>
>>>> LOL, saying KVM_GET_CPUID2 was "designed" is definitely giving the KVM
>>>> forefathers the benefit of the doubt.
>>>
>>> I was going to make a different joke, i.e. that KVM_GET_CPUID2 was
>>> indeed designed the way Valeriy described, but that design was
>>> forgotten soon after.
>>>
>>> Really, this ioctl has been such a trainwreck that I think the only
>>> good solution here is to drop it.
>>>
>>> Paolo
>>>
>>
>> should we discuss KVM_GET_CPUID3 which will work "normally"?
>
> Is anybody using KVM_GET_CPUID2 at all?
>
> Paolo
>
As far as I understand only some testing within kernel now.
Though we have plans to expose it for QAPI as the series
in QEMU
  [PATCH 1/2] qapi: fix error handling for x-vz-query-cpu-model-cpuid
  [PATCH 2/2] qapi: blacklisted x-vz-query-cpu-model-cpuid in tests
is not coming in a good way.
The idea was to avoid manual code rework in QEMU and
expose collected model at least for debug.

All it all, some control over things set to the kernel as CPU modes
is needed. Without that I am feeling uncomfortable.

Den