Re: [PATCH 1/7] x86/cpu: Add CPUID feature bit for VNMI

[Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2022-06-02 at 19:56 +0530, Santosh Shukla wrote:
> VNMI feature allows the hypervisor to inject NMI into the guest w/o
> using Event injection mechanism, The benefit of using VNMI over the
> event Injection that does not require tracking the Guest's NMI state and
> intercepting the IRET for the NMI completion. VNMI achieves that by
> exposing 3 capability bits in VMCB intr_cntrl which helps with
> virtualizing NMI injection and NMI_Masking.
> 
> The presence of this feature is indicated via the CPUID function
> 0x8000000A_EDX[25].
> 
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@amd.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> index 393f2bbb5e3a..c8775b25856b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> @@ -346,6 +346,7 @@
>  #define X86_FEATURE_V_VMSAVE_VMLOAD    (15*32+15) /* Virtual VMSAVE VMLOAD */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_VGIF               (15*32+16) /* Virtual GIF */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_V_SPEC_CTRL                (15*32+20) /* Virtual SPEC_CTRL */
> +#define X86_FEATURE_V_NMI              (15*32+25) /* Virtual NMI */
>  #define X86_FEATURE_SVME_ADDR_CHK      (15*32+28) /* "" SVME addr check */
>  
>  /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:0 (ECX), word 16 */

I also think that AMD should publish some sort of a 'future ISA' spec like Intel does,
so that we could avoid mistakes in reviweing the code.

Other than that:

Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky