On 09/08/20 09:47, Cathy Zhang wrote: > Expose the SERIALIZE and TSX Suspend Load Address Tracking > features in KVM CPUID, so when running on processors which > support them, KVM could pass this information to guests and > they can make use of these features accordingly. > > SERIALIZE is a faster serializing instruction which does not modify > registers, arithmetic flags or memory, will not cause VM exit. It's > availability is indicated by CPUID.(EAX=7,ECX=0):ECX[bit 14]. > > TSX suspend load tracking instruction aims to give a way to choose > which memory accesses do not need to be tracked in the TSX read set. > It's availability is indicated as CPUID.(EAX=7,ECX=0):EDX[bit 16]. > > Those instructions are currently documented in the the latest "extensions" > manual (ISE). It will appear in the "main" manual (SDM) in the future. > > Signed-off-by: Cathy Zhang <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]> > --- > Changes since v2: > * Merge two patches into a single one. (Luck, Tony) > * Add overview introduction for features. (Sean Christopherson) > * Refactor commit message to explain why expose feature bits. (Luck, Tony) > --- > arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c > index 8a294f9..dcf48cc 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c > @@ -341,7 +341,8 @@ void kvm_set_cpu_caps(void) > kvm_cpu_cap_mask(CPUID_7_EDX, > F(AVX512_4VNNIW) | F(AVX512_4FMAPS) | F(SPEC_CTRL) | > F(SPEC_CTRL_SSBD) | F(ARCH_CAPABILITIES) | F(INTEL_STIBP) | > - F(MD_CLEAR) | F(AVX512_VP2INTERSECT) | F(FSRM) > + F(MD_CLEAR) | F(AVX512_VP2INTERSECT) | F(FSRM) | > + F(SERIALIZE) | F(TSXLDTRK) > ); > > /* TSC_ADJUST and ARCH_CAPABILITIES are emulated in software. */ >
TSXLDTRK is not going to be in 5.9 as far as I can see, so I split back again the patches (this is why I prefer them to be split, sorry Tony :)) and committed the SERIALIZE part. Paolo
