Newer AMD processors have a feature to virtualize the use of the
SPEC_CTRL MSR on the guest. The series adds the feature support
and enables the feature on SVM.
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v2:
NOTE: This is not final yet. Sending out the patches to make
sure I captured all the comments correctly.
1. Most of the changes are related to Jim and Sean's feedback.
2. Improved the description of patch #2.
3. Updated the vmcb save area's guest spec_ctrl value(offset 0x2E0)
properly. Initialized during init_vmcb and svm_set_msr and
returned the value from save area for svm_get_msr.
4. As Jim commented, transferred the value into the VMCB prior
to VMRUN and out of the VMCB after #VMEXIT.
5. Added kvm-unit-test to detect the SPEC CTRL feature.
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/160865324865.19910.5159218511905134908.stgit@bmoger-ubuntu/
6. Sean mantioned of renaming MSR_AMD64_VIRT_SPEC_CTRL. But, it might
create even more confusion, so dropped the idea for now.
v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/160738054169.28590.5171339079028237631.stgit@bmoger-ubuntu/
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Babu Moger (2):
x86/cpufeatures: Add the Virtual SPEC_CTRL feature
KVM: SVM: Add support for Virtual SPEC_CTRL
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 +
arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h | 4 +++-
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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