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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: "Xin Li (Intel)" <xin@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, corbet@lwn.net,
	 tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de,
	 dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
	luto@kernel.org,  peterz@infradead.org,
	andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, chao.gao@intel.com,
	 hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 16/21] KVM: x86: Advertise support for FRED
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 18:15:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aauKQSACQXFYvCCH@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250829153149.2871901-17-xin@zytor.com>

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025, Xin Li (Intel) wrote:
> From: Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com>
> 
> Advertise support for FRED to userspace after changes required to enable
> FRED in a KVM guest are in place.

Mostly a note to myself, if VMX and SVM land separately, we need to do the same
thing we did for CET and explicitly clear FRED in svm_set_cpu_caps().  But ideally
this would just be the last patch after both VMX and SVM support are in place.

> Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
> Tested-by: Shan Kang <shan.kang@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Xuelian Guo <xuelian.guo@intel.com>
> ---
> 
> Change in v5:
> * Don't advertise FRED/LKGS together, LKGS can be advertised as an
>   independent feature (Sean).
> * Add TB from Xuelian Guo.
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> index ee05b876c656..1f15aad02c68 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
> @@ -994,6 +994,7 @@ void kvm_set_cpu_caps(void)
>  		F(FSRS),
>  		F(FSRC),
>  		F(WRMSRNS),
> +		X86_64_F(FRED),
>  		X86_64_F(LKGS),
>  		F(AMX_FP16),
>  		F(AVX_IFMA),
> -- 
> 2.51.0
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-07  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-29 15:31 [PATCH v7 00/21] Enable FRED with KVM VMX Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 01/21] KVM: VMX: Add support for the secondary VM exit controls Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 02/21] KVM: VMX: Initialize VM entry/exit FRED controls in vmcs_config Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 03/21] KVM: VMX: Disable FRED if FRED consistency checks fail Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 04/21] x86/cea: Prefix event stack names with ESTACK_ Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 05/21] x86/cea: Export API for per-CPU exception stacks for KVM Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 16:52   ` Xin Li
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 06/21] KVM: VMX: Initialize VMCS FRED fields Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 07/21] KVM: VMX: Set FRED MSR intercepts Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 08/21] KVM: VMX: Save/restore guest FRED RSP0 Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 09/21] KVM: VMX: Add support for saving and restoring FRED MSRs Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 10/21] KVM: x86: Add a helper to detect if FRED is enabled for a vCPU Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 11/21] KVM: VMX: Virtualize FRED event_data Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 12/21] KVM: VMX: Virtualize FRED nested exception tracking Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 13/21] KVM: x86: Save/restore the nested flag of an exception Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 14/21] KVM: x86: Mark CR4.FRED as not reserved Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 15/21] KVM: VMX: Dump FRED context in dump_vmcs() Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 16/21] KVM: x86: Advertise support for FRED Xin Li (Intel)
2026-03-07  2:15   ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-03-07  3:00     ` Xin Li
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 17/21] KVM: nVMX: Add support for the secondary VM exit controls Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 18/21] KVM: nVMX: Add FRED VMCS fields to nested VMX context handling Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 19/21] KVM: nVMX: Add FRED-related VMCS field checks Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 20/21] KVM: nVMX: Add prerequisites to SHADOW_FIELD_R[OW] macros Xin Li (Intel)
2025-08-29 15:31 ` [PATCH v7 21/21] KVM: nVMX: Allow VMX FRED controls Xin Li (Intel)

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