Re: [PATCH v2 11/17] kvm: vmx: Support INVPCID in shadow paging mode

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On 06/13/2018 11:28 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Tangentially related, I think we should expose INVPCID even when PCID
> is not enabled in the guest.  vmx_compute_secondary_exec_control()
> disables INVPCID when PCID is disabled, but there is actually a use
> case for INVPCID without PCID, e.g. __native_flush_tlb_global() in
> the Linux kernel uses the global variant instead of toggling CR4.PGE
> regardless of whether PCID is enabled/supported.

Is it actually legal for a CPU to have support for INVPCID and not have support for PCIDs? I believe that the code already supports INVPCID if guest PCIDs are supported but disabled (via CR4.PCIDE=0). But having CPUID report INVPCID support and not report PCID support would seem rather strange, even if it is technically legal.

> +		skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu);
> +		return 1;
> These should all be "return kvm_skip_emulated_instruction(vcpu)".

Thanks for catching that. I failed to notice the change when porting over the patches from an older kernel.

Thanks,
Junaid



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