From: Jim Mattson jmattson@google.com
commit 1eaafe91a0df4157521b6417b3dd8430bf5f52f0 upstream.
If there is a possibility that a VM may migrate to a Skylake host, then the hypervisor should report IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES.RSBA[bit 2] as being set (future work, of course). This implies that CPUID.(EAX=7,ECX=0):EDX.ARCH_CAPABILITIES[bit 29] should be set. Therefore, kvm should report this CPUID bit as being supported whether or not the host supports it. Userspace is still free to clear the bit if it chooses.
For more information on RSBA, see Intel's white paper, "Retpoline: A Branch Target Injection Mitigation" (Document Number 337131-001), currently available at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199511.
Since the IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR is emulated in kvm, there is no dependency on hardware support for this feature.
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson jmattson@google.com Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk konrad.wilk@oracle.com Fixes: 28c1c9fabf48 ("KVM/VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES") Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář rkrcmar@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben@decadent.org.uk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c @@ -447,6 +447,11 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_ent(struct entry->ebx |= F(TSC_ADJUST); entry->edx &= kvm_cpuid_7_0_edx_x86_features; cpuid_mask(&entry->edx, CPUID_7_EDX); + /* + * We emulate ARCH_CAPABILITIES in software even + * if the host doesn't support it. + */ + entry->edx |= F(ARCH_CAPABILITIES); } else { entry->ebx = 0; entry->edx = 0;