Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Advertise that the SMM_CTL MSR is not supported

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On Fri, Dec 02, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 10/8/22 00:16, Jim Mattson wrote:
> > CPUID.80000021H:EAX[bit 9] indicates that the SMM_CTL MSR (0xc0010116)
> > is not supported. This defeature can be advertised by
> > KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID regardless of whether or not the host
> > enumerates it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 4 ++++
> >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> > index 2796dde06302..b748fac2ae37 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> > @@ -1199,8 +1199,12 @@ static inline int __do_cpuid_func(struct kvm_cpuid_array *array, u32 function)
> >   		 * Other defined bits are for MSRs that KVM does not expose:
> >   		 *   EAX      3      SPCL, SMM page configuration lock
> >   		 *   EAX      13     PCMSR, Prefetch control MSR
> > +		 *
> > +		 * KVM doesn't support SMM_CTL.
> > +		 *   EAX       9     SMM_CTL MSR is not supported
> >   		 */
> >   		entry->eax &= BIT(0) | BIT(2) | BIT(6);
> > +		entry->eax |= BIT(9);
> >   		if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_LFENCE_RDTSC))
> >   			entry->eax |= BIT(2);
> >   		if (!static_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_NULL_SEG))
> 
> Queued, thanks.  Negative features suck, though.

LOL, you and Jim should start a club, Jim's had a few good rants on negative
features :-)



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