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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/x86.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 26 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c index 76bce832cade..b05a1fe9dae9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c @@ -1394,16 +1394,24 @@ static u64 kvm_get_arch_capabilities(void) if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_MDS)) data |= ARCH_CAP_MDS_NO; - /* - * On TAA affected systems: - * - nothing to do if TSX is disabled on the host. - * - we emulate TSX_CTRL if present on the host. - * This lets the guest use VERW to clear CPU buffers. - */ - if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RTM)) - data &= ~(ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO | ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR); - else if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_TAA)) + if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RTM)) { + /* + * If RTM=0 because the kernel has disabled TSX, the host might + * have TAA_NO or TSX_CTRL. Clear TAA_NO (the guest sees RTM=0 + * and therefore knows that there cannot be TAA) but keep + * TSX_CTRL: some buggy userspaces leave it set on tsx=on hosts, + * and we want to allow migrating those guests to tsx=off hosts. + */ + data &= ~ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO; + } else if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_TAA)) { data |= ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO; + } else { + /* + * Nothing to do here; we emulate TSX_CTRL if present on the + * host so the guest can choose between disabling TSX or + * using VERW to clear CPU buffers. + */ + } return data; } |