[PATCH v6 4/7] x86/cpufeatures: Add Page modification logging

Nikunj A Dadhania
2026-04-07T06:33:35Z

Page modification logging(PML) is a hardware feature designed to track
guest modified memory pages. PML enables the hypervisor to identify which
pages in a guest's memory have been changed since the last checkpoint or
during live migration.

The PML feature is advertised via CPUID leaf 0x8000000A ECX[4] bit.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index dbe104df339b..8c669c9b11d0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@
#define X86_FEATURE_PVUNLOCK ( 8*32+20) /* PV unlock function */
#define X86_FEATURE_VCPUPREEMPT ( 8*32+21) /* PV vcpu_is_preempted function */
#define X86_FEATURE_TDX_GUEST ( 8*32+22) /* "tdx_guest" Intel Trust Domain Extensions Guest */
+#define X86_FEATURE_PML ( 8*32+23) /* AMD Page Modification logging */

/* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:0 (EBX), word 9 */
#define X86_FEATURE_FSGSBASE ( 9*32+ 0) /* "fsgsbase" RDFSBASE, WRFSBASE, RDGSBASE, WRGSBASE instructions*/
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
index 42c7eac0c387..cdda4e72c5e6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/scattered.c
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ static const struct cpuid_bit cpuid_bits[] = {
{ X86_FEATURE_PROC_FEEDBACK, CPUID_EDX, 11, 0x80000007, 0 },
{ X86_FEATURE_AMD_FAST_CPPC, CPUID_EDX, 15, 0x80000007, 0 },
{ X86_FEATURE_MBA, CPUID_EBX, 6, 0x80000008, 0 },
+ { X86_FEATURE_PML, CPUID_ECX, 4, 0x8000000a, 0 },
{ X86_FEATURE_X2AVIC_EXT, CPUID_ECX, 6, 0x8000000a, 0 },
{ X86_FEATURE_COHERENCY_SFW_NO, CPUID_EBX, 31, 0x8000001f, 0 },
{ X86_FEATURE_SMBA, CPUID_EBX, 2, 0x80000020, 0 },
--
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