Re: [PATCH v8 15/15] KVM: x86/cpuid: Advise Arch LBR feature in CPUID

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s/Advise/Advertise

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021, Yang Weijiang wrote:
> Add Arch LBR feature bit in CPU cap-mask to expose the feature.
> Only max LBR depth is supported for guest, and it's consistent
> with host Arch LBR settings.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Like Xu <like.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> index 03025eea1524..d98ebefd5d72 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> @@ -88,6 +88,16 @@ static int kvm_check_cpuid(struct kvm_cpuid_entry2 *entries, int nent)
>  		if (vaddr_bits != 48 && vaddr_bits != 57 && vaddr_bits != 0)
>  			return -EINVAL;
>  	}
> +	best = cpuid_entry2_find(entries, nent, 0x1c, 0);
> +	if (best) {
> +		unsigned int eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
> +
> +		/* Reject user-space CPUID if depth is different from host's.*/

Why disallow this?  I don't see why it would be illegal for userspace to specify
fewer LBRs, and KVM should darn well verify that any MSRs it's exposing to the
guest actually exist.

> +		cpuid_count(0x1c, 0, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
> +
> +		if ((best->eax & 0xff) != BIT(fls(eax & 0xff) - 1))
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +	}
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }



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