Re: [PATCH 02/22] x86/srso: Set CPUID feature bits independently of bug or mitigation status

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 04:06:19PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> And I still don't know what exactly we're going to support when Linux
> runs as a guest. For example, live migration between Zen1/2 and Zen3/4
> won't work due to the alternatives patching, for example...
> 
> IBPB won't work either because we detect those feature bits only once
> during boot, like every other feature bit...

The lowest common denominator of features exposed to the guests, should
work, as I'm being told. As in, Zen2 and Zen3 should hide the SBPB bit
from the guests, for example.

Anything else like kernel code patching based on early detection of
features won't fly. But that has never flown anyway unless you don't
change that set of features.

I'm thinking if anyone cares really deeply about live migration, anyone
should say so and then we can see what cases we can support upstream. My
guess is those who do, have enough engineers to patch their kernel the
way they want it...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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