linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Vitaly Kuznetsov b2d8b167e1 KVM: x86: hyper-v: set NoNonArchitecturalCoreSharing CPUID bit when SMT is impossible
Hyper-V 2019 doesn't expose MD_CLEAR CPUID bit to guests when it cannot
guarantee that two virtual processors won't end up running on sibling SMT
threads without knowing about it. This is done as an optimization as in
this case there is nothing the guest can do to protect itself against MDS
and issuing additional flush requests is just pointless. On bare metal the
topology is known, however, when Hyper-V is running nested (e.g. on top of
KVM) it needs an additional piece of information: a confirmation that the
exposed topology (wrt vCPU placement on different SMT threads) is
trustworthy.

NoNonArchitecturalCoreSharing (CPUID 0x40000004 EAX bit 18) is described in
TLFS as follows: "Indicates that a virtual processor will never share a
physical core with another virtual processor, except for virtual processors
that are reported as sibling SMT threads." From KVM we can give such
guarantee in two cases:
- SMT is unsupported or forcefully disabled (just 'disabled' doesn't work
 as it can become re-enabled during the lifetime of the guest).
- vCPUs are properly pinned so the scheduler won't put them on sibling
SMT threads (when they're not reported as such).

This patch reports NoNonArchitecturalCoreSharing bit in to userspace in the
first case. The second case is outside of KVM's domain of responsibility
(as vCPU pinning is actually done by someone who manages KVM's userspace -
e.g. libvirt pinning QEMU threads).

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-09-24 13:37:30 +02:00
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alpha Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
arc Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
arm pci-v5.4-changes 2019-09-23 19:16:01 -07:00
arm64 pci-v5.4-changes 2019-09-23 19:16:01 -07:00
c6x dma-mapping: remove CONFIG_ARCH_NO_COHERENT_DMA_MMAP 2019-09-04 11:13:18 +02:00
csky hmm related patches for 5.4 2019-09-21 10:07:42 -07:00
h8300 h8300 update for 5.3 2019-07-17 09:36:38 -07:00
hexagon hexagon: switch to generic version of pte allocation 2019-07-21 09:53:00 -07:00
ia64 Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
m68k Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
microblaze pci-v5.4-changes 2019-09-23 19:16:01 -07:00
mips pci-v5.4-changes 2019-09-23 19:16:01 -07:00
nds32 dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
nios2 nios2 update for v5.3-rc1 2019-07-12 15:38:05 -07:00
openrisc hmm related patches for 5.4 2019-09-21 10:07:42 -07:00
parisc Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
powerpc pci-v5.4-changes 2019-09-23 19:16:01 -07:00
riscv Kbuild updates for v5.4 2019-09-20 08:36:47 -07:00
s390 hmm related patches for 5.4 2019-09-21 10:07:42 -07:00
sh dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
sparc pci-v5.4-changes 2019-09-23 19:16:01 -07:00
um This pull request contains the following changes for UML: 2019-09-21 11:07:02 -07:00
unicore32 dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
x86 KVM: x86: hyper-v: set NoNonArchitecturalCoreSharing CPUID bit when SMT is impossible 2019-09-24 13:37:30 +02:00
xtensa dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
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Kconfig powerpc updates for 5.4 2019-09-20 11:48:06 -07:00