From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
x86@kernel.org, Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/5] KVM: x86: Add IBPB support
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:31:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1517603487.31953.76.camel@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180202202857.GI28192@char.us.oracle.com>
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On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 15:28 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>
> >
> > No. The AMD feature bits give us more fine-grained support for exposing
> > IBPB or IBRS alone, so we expose those bits on Intel too.
>
> But but.. that runs smack against the idea of exposing a platform that
> is as close to emulating the real hardware as possible.
>
> As in I would never expect an Intel CPU to expose the IBPB on the 0x8000_0008
> leaf. Hence KVM (nor any hypervisor) should not do it either.
>
> Unless Intel is doing it? Did I miss a new spec update?
Are you telling me there's no way you can infer from CPUID that you're
running in a hypervisor?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-02 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-01 21:59 [PATCH v6 0/5] KVM: Expose speculation control feature to guests KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 1/5] KVM: x86: Update the reverse_cpuid list to include CPUID_7_EDX KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 17:37 ` Jim Mattson
2018-02-03 22:50 ` [tip:x86/pti] KVM/x86: " tip-bot for KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] KVM: x86: Add IBPB support KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 17:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 18:02 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 19:56 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 20:16 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 20:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 20:31 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2018-02-02 20:52 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2018-02-05 19:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-05 19:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-03 22:50 ` [tip:x86/pti] KVM/x86: " tip-bot for Ashok Raj
2018-02-16 3:44 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] KVM: x86: " Jim Mattson
2018-02-16 4:22 ` Andi Kleen
2018-05-03 1:27 ` Wanpeng Li
2018-05-03 9:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-03 12:01 ` Wanpeng Li
2018-05-03 12:46 ` Tian, Kevin
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 3/5] KVM: VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 10:53 ` Darren Kenny
2018-02-02 17:35 ` Jim Mattson
2018-02-02 17:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-03 22:51 ` [tip:x86/pti] KVM/VMX: " tip-bot for KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 4/5] KVM: VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 11:03 ` Darren Kenny
2018-02-02 11:27 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 17:53 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 18:05 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 18:19 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 17:57 ` Jim Mattson
2018-02-03 22:51 ` [tip:x86/pti] KVM/VMX: " tip-bot for KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 5/5] KVM: SVM: " KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 11:06 ` Darren Kenny
2018-02-02 18:02 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-01-12 1:32 [PATCH 0/5] Add support for IBRS & IBPB KVM support Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86/ibrs: Introduce native_rdmsrl, and native_wrmsrl Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 1:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-12 1:52 ` Raj, Ashok
2018-01-12 2:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-12 3:01 ` Raj, Ashok
2018-01-12 5:03 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-12 16:28 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-12 16:28 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-13 6:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-13 13:52 ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2018-01-13 15:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-13 6:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-12 7:54 ` Greg KH
2018-01-12 12:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86/ibrs: Add new helper macros to save/restore MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86/ibrs: Add direct access support for MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 1:58 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-12 3:14 ` Raj, Ashok
2018-01-12 9:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-12 10:09 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-15 13:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-15 13:59 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-15 14:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86/svm: Direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 7:23 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-12 9:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-12 10:13 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-12 12:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-12 15:14 ` Tom Lendacky
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86/feature: Detect the x86 feature Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 10:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-12 12:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-12 12:39 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-12 15:21 ` Tom Lendacky
2018-01-12 15:31 ` Tom Lendacky
2018-01-12 15:36 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-12 17:06 ` Tom Lendacky
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