Re: [PATCH] kvm/x86: ARCH_CAPABILITIES should not be advertised on AMD

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 07:02:00AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > And it's not like KVM is forcing userspace to enumerate support for
> > ARCH_CAPABILITIES, e.g. QEMU's named AMD configs don't enumerate support.  So
> > while I completely agree KVM's behavior is odd and annoying for userspace to deal
> > with, this is probably something that should be addressed in userspace.
> 
> If you do -cpu host we tack this on all the time.

Yes, I know.

> Or you saying we should have QEMU disable this for AMD CPUs all the time?

Maybe not _all_ the time.  But yes, I'm suggesting that QEMU clear ARCH_CAPABILITIES
when running on AMD.

> Which in effect is the same thing as doing this patch.. but just moving
> it to QEMU, kvm-tool, Google Cloud user-space thingie, AWS cloud thingie.

I don't think kvm-tool supports Windows, and I highly doubt any cloud provider
is doing the equivalent of QEMU's `-cpu host`.  I.e. I suspect QEMU is the only
VMM that's actually affected by this.

> That is a lot more complexity than doing it in the kernel.

I have a hard time believing it'd be more complex.  More code, probably.  But
this isn't all that complex.