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From: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, xiaoyao.li@intel.com,
	xiangfeix.ma@intel.com, chao.p.peng@intel.com,
	Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/1] target/i386: Introduce Icelake-Server-v7 to enable TSX
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:31:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240320093138.80267-2-zhenzhong.duan@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240320093138.80267-1-zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>

When start L2 guest with both L1/L2 using Icelake-Server-v3 or above,
QEMU reports below warning:

"warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(10AH).taa-no [bit 8]"

Reason is QEMU Icelake-Server-v3 has TSX feature disabled but enables taa-no
bit. It's meaningless that TSX isn't supported but still claim TSX is secure.
So L1 KVM doesn't expose taa-no to L2 if TSX is unsupported, then starting L2
triggers the warning.

Fix it by introducing a new version Icelake-Server-v7 which has both TSX
and taa-no features. Then guest can use TSX securely when it see taa-no.

This matches the production Icelake which supports TSX and isn't susceptible
to TSX Async Abort (TAA) vulnerabilities, a.k.a, taa-no.

Ideally, TSX should have being enabled together with taa-no since v3, but for
compatibility, we'd better to add v7 to enable it.

Fixes: d965dc35592d ("target/i386: Add ARCH_CAPABILITIES related bits into Icelake-Server CPU model")
Tested-by: Xiangfei Ma <xiangfeix.ma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
---
 target/i386/cpu.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
index 9a210d8d92..5f2191cd99 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.c
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
@@ -3822,6 +3822,16 @@ static const X86CPUDefinition builtin_x86_defs[] = {
                     { /* end of list */ }
                 },
             },
+            {
+                .version = 7,
+                .note = "TSX, taa-no",
+                .props = (PropValue[]) {
+                    /* Restore TSX features removed by -v2 above */
+                    { "hle", "on" },
+                    { "rtm", "on" },
+                    { /* end of list */ }
+                },
+            },
             { /* end of list */ }
         }
     },
-- 
2.34.1



  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-20  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-20  9:31 [PATCH v3 0/1] Introduce Icelake-Server-v7 to enable TSX Zhenzhong Duan
2024-03-20  9:31 ` Zhenzhong Duan [this message]
2024-03-20 10:34 ` Paolo Bonzini

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