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2012-07-12KVM: VMX: Implement PCID/INVPCID for guests with EPTMao, Junjie
This patch handles PCID/INVPCID for guests. Process-context identifiers (PCIDs) are a facility by which a logical processor may cache information for multiple linear-address spaces so that the processor may retain cached information when software switches to a different linear address space. Refer to section 4.10.1 in IA32 Intel Software Developer's Manual Volume 3A for details. For guests with EPT, the PCID feature is enabled and INVPCID behaves as running natively. For guests without EPT, the PCID feature is disabled and INVPCID triggers #UD. Signed-off-by: Junjie Mao <junjie.mao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-07-09KVM: Split cpuid register access from computationAvi Kivity
Introduce kvm_cpuid() to perform the leaf limit check and calculate register values, and let kvm_emulate_cpuid() just handle reading and writing the registers from/to the vcpu. This allows us to reuse kvm_cpuid() in a context where directly reading and writing registers is not desired. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2012-03-05KVM: SVM: Add support for AMD's OSVW feature in guestsBoris Ostrovsky
In some cases guests should not provide workarounds for errata even when the physical processor is affected. For example, because of erratum 400 on family 10h processors a Linux guest will read an MSR (resulting in VMEXIT) before going to idle in order to avoid getting stuck in a non-C0 state. This is not necessary: HLT and IO instructions are intercepted and therefore there is no reason for erratum 400 workaround in the guest. This patch allows us to present a guest with certain errata as fixed, regardless of the state of actual hardware. Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-12-27KVM: Move cpuid code to new fileAvi Kivity
The cpuid code has grown; put it into a separate file. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>