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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jmattson@google.com, aliguori@amazon.com,
	thomas.lendacky@amd.com, dwmw@amazon.co.uk, bp@alien8.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] KVM: x86: add SPEC_CTRL and IBPB_SUPPORT accessors
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 12:18:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa181dfd-8404-4fb8-ab60-c234d9d254a0@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dddec943-302a-19a7-e45f-da2aaefb0b8e@redhat.com>

On 09/01/2018 12:14, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>  
>> +/* These are scattered features in cpufeatures.h. */
>> +#define KVM_CPUID_BIT_AVX512_4VNNIW	2
>> +#define KVM_CPUID_BIT_AVX512_4FMAPS	3
>> +#define KVM_CPUID_BIT_SPEC_CTRL		26
>> +#define KVM_CPUID_BIT_STIBP		27
> I can see that STIBP is never checked in KVM code but only forwarded to
> the guest if available.
> 
> I am wondering if we would have to check against that, too, before
> issuing a FEATURE_SET_IBPB.

STIBP is "single-threaded indirect branch prediction".  SPEC_CTRL always
implies that FEATURE_SET_IBPB is available.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-09 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-08 18:08 [PATCH 0/7] KVM: x86: expose CVE-2017-5715 ("Spectre variant 2") mitigations to guest Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-08 18:08 ` [PATCH 1/7] KVM: x86: add SPEC_CTRL and IBPB_SUPPORT accessors Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-08 18:33   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-01-08 19:09   ` Liran Alon
2018-01-09 10:32     ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-09 11:14   ` David Hildenbrand
2018-01-09 11:18     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2018-01-08 18:08 ` [PATCH 2/7] x86/msr: add definitions for indirect branch predictor MSRs Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-08 18:35   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-01-08 18:52     ` Jim Mattson
2018-01-08 19:10   ` Liran Alon
2018-01-08 18:08 ` [PATCH 3/7] kvm: vmx: pass MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL and MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD down to the guest Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-08 18:43   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-01-08 19:18   ` Jim Mattson
2018-01-08 20:23     ` Liran Alon
2018-01-08 22:32     ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-08 23:19       ` Jim Mattson
2018-01-09 10:11         ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-08 19:22   ` Liran Alon
2018-01-08 19:41   ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-08 22:33     ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-08 22:09   ` Ashok Raj
2018-01-08 22:25     ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-11  2:47   ` Tim Chen
2018-01-11 10:41     ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-08 18:08 ` [PATCH 4/7] kvm: vmx: Set IBPB when running a different VCPU Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-08 19:23   ` Liran Alon
2018-01-08 19:36   ` Jim Mattson
2018-01-09  8:33     ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-09 11:01   ` David Hildenbrand
2018-01-08 18:08 ` [PATCH 5/7] kvm: svm: pass MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL and MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD down to guest Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-08 19:41   ` Liran Alon
2018-01-08 18:08 ` [PATCH 6/7] x86/svm: Set IBPB when running a different VCPU Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-08 20:00   ` Liran Alon
2018-01-09 11:07     ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-08 18:08 ` [PATCH 7/7] KVM: x86: add SPEC_CTRL and IBPB_SUPPORT to MSR and CPUID lists Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-08 20:07   ` Liran Alon
2018-01-08 20:15     ` Jim Mattson
2018-01-09 10:15 ` [PATCH 0/7] KVM: x86: expose CVE-2017-5715 ("Spectre variant 2") mitigations to guest Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-09 11:12   ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-09 12:03     ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-09 14:06       ` Paolo Bonzini

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