Force clear bits 63:32 of MSR_TSC_AUX on write to emulate current AMD
CPUs, which completely ignore the upper 32 bits, including dropping them
on write. Emulating AMD hardware will also allow migrating a vCPU from
AMD hardware to Intel hardware without requiring userspace to manually
clear the upper bits, which are reserved on Intel hardware.
Presumably, MSR_TSC_AUX[63:32] are intended to be reserved on AMD, but
sadly the APM doesn't say _anything_ about those bits in the context of
MSR access. The RDTSCP entry simply states that RCX contains bits 31:0
of the MSR, zero extended. And even worse is that the RDPID description
implies that it can consume all 64 bits of the MSR:
RDPID reads the value of TSC_AUX MSR used by the RDTSCP instruction
into the specified destination register. Normal operand size prefixes
do not apply and the update is either 32 bit or 64 bit based on the
current mode.
Emulate current hardware behavior to give KVM the best odds of playing
nice with whatever the behavior of future AMD CPUs happens to be.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
index 9ed9c7bd7cfd..71d704f8d569 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
@@ -2904,8 +2904,17 @@ static int svm_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr)
* direct_access_msrs. Doing that would require a rdmsr in
* svm_vcpu_put.
*/
- svm->tsc_aux = data;
wrmsrl(MSR_TSC_AUX, svm->tsc_aux);
+
+ /*
+ * Per Intel's SDM, bits 63:32 are reserved, but AMD's APM has
+ * incomplete and conflicting architectural behavior. Current
+ * AMD CPUs completely ignore bits 63:32, i.e. they aren't
+ * reserved and always read as zeros. Emulate AMD CPU behavior
+ * to avoid explosions if the vCPU is migrated from an AMD host
+ * to an Intel host.
+ */
+ svm->tsc_aux = (u32)data;
break;
case MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR:
if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_LBRV)) {
--
2.31.1.498.g6c1eba8ee3d-goog
