On 13/06/20 02:04, Jim Mattson wrote: >> I think I have misunderstood this part. I was not inteding to change the >> #GP behaviour. I will remove this part. My intension of these series is to >> handle invpcid in shadow page mode. I have verified that part. Hope I did >> not miss anything else. > You don't really have to intercept INVPCID when tdp is in use, right? > There are certainly plenty of operations for which kvm does not > properly raise #UD when they aren't enumerated in the guest CPUID. > Indeed; for RDRAND and RDSEED it makes sense to do so because the instructions may introduce undesirable nondeterminism (or block all the packages in your core as they have been doing for a few weeks). Therefore on Intel we trap them and raise #UD; on AMD this is not possible because RDRAND has no intercept. In general however we do not try to hard to raise #UD and that is usually not even possible. Paolo