Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: x86: Advertise EferLmsleUnsupported to userspace

Yosry Ahmed
2025-10-01T15:17:57Z

On Tue, Sep 30, 2025 at 05:14:07PM -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> CPUID.80000008H:EBX.EferLmsleUnsupported[bit 20] is a defeature
> bit. When this bit is clear, EFER.LMSLE is supported. When this bit is
> set, EFER.LMLSE is unsupported. KVM has never supported EFER.LMSLE, so
> it cannot support a 0-setting of this bit.
>
> Pass through the bit in KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID to advertise the
> unavailability of EFER.LMSLE to userspace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>

> ---
> v1 -> v2:
> Pass through the bit from hardware, rather than forcing it to be set.
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 +
> arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> index 751ca35386b0..f9b593721917 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
> @@ -338,6 +338,7 @@
> #define X86_FEATURE_AMD_STIBP (13*32+15) /* Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors */
> #define X86_FEATURE_AMD_STIBP_ALWAYS_ON (13*32+17) /* Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors always-on preferred */
> #define X86_FEATURE_AMD_IBRS_SAME_MODE (13*32+19) /* Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation same mode protection*/
> +#define X86_FEATURE_EFER_LMSLE_MBZ (13*32+20) /* EFER.LMSLE must be zero */
> #define X86_FEATURE_AMD_PPIN (13*32+23) /* "amd_ppin" Protected Processor Inventory Number */
> #define X86_FEATURE_AMD_SSBD (13*32+24) /* Speculative Store Bypass Disable */
> #define X86_FEATURE_VIRT_SSBD (13*32+25) /* "virt_ssbd" Virtualized Speculative Store Bypass Disable */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> index e2836a255b16..4823970611fd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> @@ -1096,6 +1096,7 @@ void kvm_set_cpu_caps(void)
> F(AMD_STIBP),
> F(AMD_STIBP_ALWAYS_ON),
> F(AMD_IBRS_SAME_MODE),
> + F(EFER_LMSLE_MBZ),
> F(AMD_PSFD),
> F(AMD_IBPB_RET),
> );
> --
> 2.51.0.618.g983fd99d29-goog
>