This patch handles PCID/INVPCID for guests.
Process-context identifiers (PCIDs) are a facility by which a logical processor
may cache information for multiple linear-address spaces so that the processor
may retain cached information when software switches to a different linear
address space. Refer to section 4.10.1 in IA32 Intel Software Developer's Manual
Volume 3A for details.
For guests with EPT, the PCID feature is enabled and INVPCID behaves as running
natively.
For guests without EPT, the PCID feature is disabled and INVPCID triggers #UD.
Signed-off-by: Junjie Mao <junjie.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Introduce kvm_cpuid() to perform the leaf limit check and calculate
register values, and let kvm_emulate_cpuid() just handle reading and
writing the registers from/to the vcpu. This allows us to reuse
kvm_cpuid() in a context where directly reading and writing registers
is not desired.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
In some cases guests should not provide workarounds for errata even when the
physical processor is affected. For example, because of erratum 400 on family
10h processors a Linux guest will read an MSR (resulting in VMEXIT) before
going to idle in order to avoid getting stuck in a non-C0 state. This is not
necessary: HLT and IO instructions are intercepted and therefore there is no
reason for erratum 400 workaround in the guest.
This patch allows us to present a guest with certain errata as fixed,
regardless of the state of actual hardware.
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
