Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: enforce MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES value set by userspace

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On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:43 PM Sean Christopherson
<sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For all intents and purposes, MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES is a CPUID
> feature leaf.  Now that it is emulated, give it the same treatment we
> give CPUID leafs with a mixture of emulated and hardware-only features
> and reject attempts by host userspace to expose features to the guest
> that are not supported by KVM, i.e. are not supported in hardware and
> are not emulated by KVM.

I didn't think we rejected attempts by host userspace to expose CPUID
features to the guest that aren't supported by kvm. I know we do so
for VMX capability MSRs, but is this overkill for this particular MSR?



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