From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86/cpuid: Avoid unconditionally clobbering ITSC for guests
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 17:59:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1463417955-4258-1-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> (raw)
In general, Invariant TSC is not a feature which can be advertised to guests,
because it cannot be guaranteed across migrate. domain_cpuid() goes so far as
to deliberately clobber the feature flag under a number of circumstances.
Because ITSC is absent from the static {pv,hvm}_featureset masks, c/s b648feff
"xen/x86: Improvements to in-hypervisor cpuid sanity checks" caused ITSC to be
unconditionally masked out.
As an interim solution, include the hosts idea of ITSC along with the static
{pv,hvm}_featureset when restricting the guests view of features. This causes
the hardware domain, and VMs explicitly configured with ITSC and no-migrate to
be offered ITSC (subject to hardware availability).
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
---
CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
---
xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c | 3 ++-
xen/arch/x86/traps.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
index 7492030..5040a5c 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
@@ -3509,7 +3509,8 @@ void hvm_cpuid(unsigned int input, unsigned int *eax, unsigned int *ebx,
break;
case 0x80000007:
- *edx &= hvm_featureset[FEATURESET_e7d];
+ *edx &= (hvm_featureset[FEATURESET_e7d] |
+ (host_featureset[FEATURESET_e7d] & cpufeat_mask(X86_FEATURE_ITSC)));
break;
case 0x80000008:
diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/traps.c b/xen/arch/x86/traps.c
index 0052ab8..1ef8401 100644
--- a/xen/arch/x86/traps.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/traps.c
@@ -1142,7 +1142,8 @@ void pv_cpuid(struct cpu_user_regs *regs)
break;
case 0x80000007:
- d &= pv_featureset[FEATURESET_e7d];
+ d &= (pv_featureset[FEATURESET_e7d] |
+ (host_featureset[FEATURESET_e7d] & cpufeat_mask(X86_FEATURE_ITSC)));
break;
case 0x80000008:
--
2.1.4
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2016-05-16 16:59 Andrew Cooper [this message]
2016-05-17 8:39 ` [PATCH] x86/cpuid: Avoid unconditionally clobbering ITSC for guests Jan Beulich
2016-05-17 13:12 ` Wei Liu
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