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Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:11:07 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] x86: Drop cross-vendor support To: Alejandro Vallejo Cc: Oleksii Kurochko , Community Manager , Andrew Cooper , =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= , Anthony PERARD , Jason Andryuk , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org References: <20260213114232.42996-1-alejandro.garciavallejo@amd.com> <7973d3d1-8984-421f-88db-ca17ea3cb2ac@suse.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Jan Beulich Autocrypt: addr=jbeulich@suse.com; keydata= xsDiBFk3nEQRBADAEaSw6zC/EJkiwGPXbWtPxl2xCdSoeepS07jW8UgcHNurfHvUzogEq5xk hu507c3BarVjyWCJOylMNR98Yd8VqD9UfmX0Hb8/BrA+Hl6/DB/eqGptrf4BSRwcZQM32aZK 7Pj2XbGWIUrZrd70x1eAP9QE3P79Y2oLrsCgbZJfEwCgvz9JjGmQqQkRiTVzlZVCJYcyGGsD /0tbFCzD2h20ahe8rC1gbb3K3qk+LpBtvjBu1RY9drYk0NymiGbJWZgab6t1jM7sk2vuf0Py O9Hf9XBmK0uE9IgMaiCpc32XV9oASz6UJebwkX+zF2jG5I1BfnO9g7KlotcA/v5ClMjgo6Gl MDY4HxoSRu3i1cqqSDtVlt+AOVBJBACrZcnHAUSuCXBPy0jOlBhxPqRWv6ND4c9PH1xjQ3NP nxJuMBS8rnNg22uyfAgmBKNLpLgAGVRMZGaGoJObGf72s6TeIqKJo/LtggAS9qAUiuKVnygo 3wjfkS9A3DRO+SpU7JqWdsveeIQyeyEJ/8PTowmSQLakF+3fote9ybzd880fSmFuIEJldWxp Y2ggPGpiZXVsaWNoQHN1c2UuY29tPsJgBBMRAgAgBQJZN5xEAhsDBgsJCAcDAgQVAggDBBYC AwECHgECF4AACgkQoDSui/t3IH4J+wCfQ5jHdEjCRHj23O/5ttg9r9OIruwAn3103WUITZee e7Sbg12UgcQ5lv7SzsFNBFk3nEQQCACCuTjCjFOUdi5Nm244F+78kLghRcin/awv+IrTcIWF hUpSs1Y91iQQ7KItirz5uwCPlwejSJDQJLIS+QtJHaXDXeV6NI0Uef1hP20+y8qydDiVkv6l IreXjTb7DvksRgJNvCkWtYnlS3mYvQ9NzS9PhyALWbXnH6sIJd2O9lKS1Mrfq+y0IXCP10eS FFGg+Av3IQeFatkJAyju0PPthyTqxSI4lZYuJVPknzgaeuJv/2NccrPvmeDg6Coe7ZIeQ8Yj t0ARxu2xytAkkLCel1Lz1WLmwLstV30g80nkgZf/wr+/BXJW/oIvRlonUkxv+IbBM3dX2OV8 AmRv1ySWPTP7AAMFB/9PQK/VtlNUJvg8GXj9ootzrteGfVZVVT4XBJkfwBcpC/XcPzldjv+3 HYudvpdNK3lLujXeA5fLOH+Z/G9WBc5pFVSMocI71I8bT8lIAzreg0WvkWg5V2WZsUMlnDL9 mpwIGFhlbM3gfDMs7MPMu8YQRFVdUvtSpaAs8OFfGQ0ia3LGZcjA6Ik2+xcqscEJzNH+qh8V m5jjp28yZgaqTaRbg3M/+MTbMpicpZuqF4rnB0AQD12/3BNWDR6bmh+EkYSMcEIpQmBM51qM EKYTQGybRCjpnKHGOxG0rfFY1085mBDZCH5Kx0cl0HVJuQKC+dV2ZY5AqjcKwAxpE75MLFkr wkkEGBECAAkFAlk3nEQCGwwACgkQoDSui/t3IH7nnwCfcJWUDUFKdCsBH/E5d+0ZnMQi+G0A nAuWpQkjM1ASeQwSHEeAWPgskBQL In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 11.03.2026 10:46, Alejandro Vallejo wrote: > On Wed Mar 11, 2026 at 9:54 AM CET, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 13.02.2026 12:42, Alejandro Vallejo wrote: >>> Alejandro Vallejo (4): >>> x86: Reject CPU policies with vendors other than the host's >>> x86/hvm: Disable cross-vendor handling in #UD handler >>> x86/hvm: Remove cross-vendor checks from MSR handlers. >>> x86/svm: Drop emulation of Intel's SYSENTER behaviour on AMD systems >> >> With this, do we actually want to keep emulation of SYS{ENTER,EXIT,CALL,RET} >> in the insn emulator? Or at least gate that on e.g. VM_EVENT, to still allow >> its use by introspection? Whether to then also permit those with HVM_FEP=y >> (but VM_EVENT=n) would be a follow-on question. > > I can force emulation of anything by writing an instruction to an xAPIC register > followed by RET and then CALL-ing it that address. If we want a hypervisor > capable of running such ridiculous cases the emulator must be complete. Well, yes, hence the question. Or in other words: Do we consider completeness important for these insns? (There are others we don't currently support.) > If not, > the question is what to do otherwise. Inject #UD? Crash the domain? #UD is what I think we inject for anything the emulator can't handle. Jan