[PATCH 33/44] KVM: x86: Do VMX/SVM support checks directly in vendor code
Paolo Bonzini
pbonzini at redhat.com
Fri Nov 4 05:46:22 AEDT 2022
On 11/3/22 19:35, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> It's technically required. IA32_FEAT_CTL and thus KVM_INTEL depends on any of
> CPU_SUP_{INTEL,CENATUR,ZHAOXIN}, but init_ia32_feat_ctl() is invoked if and only
> if the actual CPU type matches one of the aforementioned CPU_SUP_*.
>
> E.g. running a kernel built with
>
> CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL=y
> CONFIG_CPU_SUP_AMD=y
> # CONFIG_CPU_SUP_HYGON is not set
> # CONFIG_CPU_SUP_CENTAUR is not set
> # CONFIG_CPU_SUP_ZHAOXIN is not set
>
> on a Cenatur or Zhaoxin CPU will leave X86_FEATURE_VMX set but not set
> X86_FEATURE_MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL. If VMX isn't enabled in MSR_IA32_FEAT_CTL, KVM
> will get unexpected #UDs when trying to enable VMX.
Oh, I see. Perhaps X86_FEATURE_VMX and X86_FEATURE_SGX should be moved
to one of the software words instead of using cpuid. Nothing that you
should care about for this series though.
Paolo
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