kvm selftest 'msr' fails on some skylake cpus

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Hi!

This kvm unit test tests that all reserved bits of the MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD #GP, but apparently
on some systems this test fails.

For example I reproduced this on:

model name	: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1260L v5 @ 2.90GHz
stepping	: 3
microcode	: 0xf0


As I see in the 'vmx_vcpu_after_set_cpuid', we passthough this msr to the guest AS IS,
thus the unit test tests the microcode.

So I suspect that the test actually caught a harmless microcode bug.

What do you think we should do to workaround this? Maybe disable this check on
affected cpus or turn it into a warning because MSR_IA32_FLUSH_CMD reserved bits
test doesn't test KVM?

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky





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