From: Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Cc: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>,
Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>,
Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>,
Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH V2 01/11] target/i386: Disable unsupported BTS for guest
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:09:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260128231003.268981-2-zide.chen@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260128231003.268981-1-zide.chen@intel.com>
BTS (Branch Trace Store), enumerated by IA32_MISC_ENABLE.BTS_UNAVAILABLE
(bit 11), is deprecated and has been superseded by LBR and Intel PT.
KVM yields control of the above mentioned bit to userspace since KVM
commit 9fc222967a39 ("KVM: x86: Give host userspace full control of
MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLES").
However, QEMU does not set this bit, which allows guests to write the
BTS and BTINT bits in IA32_DEBUGCTL. Since KVM doesn't support BTS,
this may lead to unexpected MSR access errors.
Signed-off-by: Zide Chen <zide.chen@intel.com>
---
V2:
- Address Dapeng's comments.
- Remove mention of VMState version_id from the commit message.
target/i386/cpu.h | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.h b/target/i386/cpu.h
index 2bbc977d9088..f02812bfd19f 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.h
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.h
@@ -474,8 +474,11 @@ typedef enum X86Seg {
#define MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE 0x1a0
/* Indicates good rep/movs microcode on some processors: */
-#define MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_DEFAULT 1
+#define MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_FASTSTRING (1ULL << 0)
+#define MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_BTS_UNAVAIL (1ULL << 11)
#define MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_MWAIT (1ULL << 18)
+#define MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_DEFAULT (MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_FASTSTRING |\
+ MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_BTS_UNAVAIL)
#define MSR_MTRRphysBase(reg) (0x200 + 2 * (reg))
#define MSR_MTRRphysMask(reg) (0x200 + 2 * (reg) + 1)
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-28 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-28 23:09 [PATCH V2 00/11] target/i386: Misc PMU, PEBS, and MSR fixes and improvements Zide Chen
2026-01-28 23:09 ` Zide Chen [this message]
2026-02-10 6:31 ` [PATCH V2 01/11] target/i386: Disable unsupported BTS for guest Mi, Dapeng
2026-02-11 6:14 ` Xiaoyao Li
2026-03-04 18:22 ` Chen, Zide
2026-01-28 23:09 ` [PATCH V2 02/11] target/i386: Don't save/restore PERF_GLOBAL_OVF_CTRL MSR Zide Chen
2026-01-28 23:09 ` [PATCH V2 03/11] target/i386: Gate enable_pmu on kvm_enabled() Zide Chen
2026-01-28 23:09 ` [PATCH V2 04/11] target/i386: Support full-width writes for perf counters Zide Chen
2026-01-28 23:09 ` [PATCH V2 05/11] target/i386: Increase MSR_BUF_SIZE and split KVM_[GET/SET]_MSRS calls Zide Chen
2026-02-10 6:57 ` Mi, Dapeng
2026-02-10 17:23 ` Chen, Zide
2026-01-28 23:09 ` [PATCH V2 06/11] target/i386: Save/Restore DS based PEBS specfic MSRs Zide Chen
2026-01-28 23:09 ` [PATCH V2 07/11] target/i386: Make some PEBS features user-visible Zide Chen
2026-02-10 7:02 ` Mi, Dapeng
2026-01-28 23:09 ` [PATCH V2 08/11] target/i386: Clean up LBR format handling Zide Chen
2026-02-10 7:07 ` Mi, Dapeng
2026-01-28 23:09 ` [PATCH V2 09/11] target/i386: Refactor " Zide Chen
2026-02-10 7:14 ` Mi, Dapeng
2026-01-28 23:09 ` [PATCH V2 10/11] target/i386: Add pebs-fmt CPU option Zide Chen
2026-01-28 23:09 ` [PATCH V2 11/11] target/i386: Disable guest PEBS capability when not enabled Zide Chen
2026-02-10 7:30 ` Mi, Dapeng
2026-02-10 19:05 ` Chen, Zide
2026-02-11 1:20 ` Mi, Dapeng
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