rr (http://rr-project.org/), a userspace record-and-replay reverse- execution debugger, would like to trap and emulate the CPUID instruction. This would allow us to a) mask away certain hardware features that rr does not support (e.g. RDRAND) and b) enable trace portability across machines by providing constant results. Newer Intel CPUs (Ivy Bridge and later) can fault when CPUID is executed at CPL > 0. Expose this capability to userspace as a new pair of arch_prctls, ARCH_GET_CPUID and ARCH_SET_CPUID, with two values, ARCH_CPUID_ENABLE and ARCH_CPUID_SIGSEGV. Since v10: Patch 1: x86/arch_prctl/64: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE2 to define sys_arch_prctl - Updated commit message. Patch 2: x86/arch_prctl/64: Rename do_arch_prctl to do_arch_prctl_64 - Updated commit message. - Moved do_arch_prctl_64() declaration into the other CONFIG_X86_64 block. - Renamed previously missed 'addr' parameters for arch_prctl functions. Patch 3: x86/arch_prctl: Add do_arch_prctl_common - Updated commit message. Patch 4: x86/syscalls/32: Wire up arch_prctl on x86-32 - Updated commit message. Patch 5: x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support - Link to document on bugzilla.kernel.org. - X86_FEATURE_CPUID_FAULT value changed. - Detection code moved to intel.c, and is broken out into init_intel_misc_features_enables(). - PLATINFO_CPUID_FAULT is now MSR_PLATFORM_INFO_CPUID_FAULT. Patch 6: x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID - msr_misc_features_enable_shadow definition and initialization moved to intel.c - Initializes MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES to 0. - CPUID_FAULT_ENABLE[_BIT] is now MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES_CPUID_FAULT[_BIT]. - Fixed checkpatch.pl errors for fork()s inside the test file. - Removed unnecessary comment in set_cpuid_mode. Patch 7: - Added Reviewed-By David Matlack. - Changed various MSR constants to match patches 5 and 6. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
