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| author | Jing Liu <jing2.liu@intel.com> | 2022-01-05 04:35:15 -0800 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2022-01-07 13:33:04 -0500 |
| commit | 445ecdf79be0c71ca248f7611aeefceaea3ec59f (patch) | |
| tree | de6de4d866343a9cddb7e1f0715e359f587eb211 /Documentation/virt | |
| parent | cc04b6a21d431359eceeec0d812b492088b04af5 (diff) | |
kvm: x86: Exclude unpermitted xfeatures at KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID
KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID should not include any dynamic xstates in
CPUID[0xD] if they have not been requested with prctl. Otherwise
a process which directly passes KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID to
KVM_SET_CPUID2 would now fail even if it doesn't intend to use a
dynamically enabled feature. Userspace must know that prctl is
required and allocate >4K xstate buffer before setting any dynamic
bit.
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jing Liu <jing2.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhong <yang.zhong@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20220105123532.12586-5-yang.zhong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 6b683dfea8f2..f4ea5e41a4d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -1687,6 +1687,10 @@ userspace capabilities, and with user requirements (for example, the user may wish to constrain cpuid to emulate older hardware, or for feature consistency across a cluster). +Dynamically-enabled feature bits need to be requested with +``arch_prctl()`` before calling this ioctl. Feature bits that have not +been requested are excluded from the result. + Note that certain capabilities, such as KVM_CAP_X86_DISABLE_EXITS, may expose cpuid features (e.g. MONITOR) which are not supported by kvm in its default configuration. If userspace enables such capabilities, it |