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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU] Patches for new AMD CPU bits.
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:38:58 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180613213858.GI24764@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180601153809.15259-1-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 11:38:07AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> I was reading the AMD whitepaper on SSBD and noticed that they have added
> two new bits in the 8000_0008 CPUID. EBX:
>  1) Bit[26] - similar to Intel's SSB_NO not needed anymore.
>  2) Bit[24] - use SPEC_CTRL MSR (0x48) instead of VIRT SPEC_CTRL MSR
>     (0xC001_011f).
> 
> See 124441_AMD64_SpeculativeStoreBypassDisable_Whitepaper_final.pdf
> A copy of this document is available at
>         https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199889
> 
> These two patches along with the kernel ones allow us to expose those
> two bits to the guest.

Queued on x86-next, thanks!

-- 
Eduardo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-13 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20180601145921.9500-1-konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2018-06-01 15:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH QEMU] Patches for new AMD CPU bits Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-06-01 15:38   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] i386: define the AMD 'amd-ssbd' CPUID feature bit Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-06-04  8:54     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-06-04 20:20       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-06-04 20:07     ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-06-04 20:22       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-06-04 21:15         ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-06-05 21:40           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-06-13 10:19         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-06-13 16:09           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-06-13 16:21             ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-06-13 16:34               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-06-13 16:39                 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-06-13 16:56                   ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-06-05 13:31       ` Tom Lendacky
2018-06-05 14:04         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-06-06 14:20         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-06-08 21:22           ` Tom Lendacky
2018-06-01 15:38   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] i386: Define AMD's no SSB mitigation needed Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-06-13 21:38   ` Eduardo Habkost [this message]

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