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* [PATCH v12 0/7] x86/arch_prctl Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID for controlling the CPUID instruction
@ 2016-11-17  2:06 Kyle Huey
  2016-11-17  2:06 ` [PATCH v12 1/7] x86/arch_prctl/64: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE2 to define sys_arch_prctl Kyle Huey
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  0 siblings, 7 replies; 22+ messages in thread
From: Kyle Huey @ 2016-11-17  2:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert O'Callahan, Thomas Gleixner, Andy Lutomirski,
	Ingo Molnar, H. Peter Anvin, x86, Paolo Bonzini,
	Radim Krčmář,
	Jeff Dike, Richard Weinberger, Alexander Viro, Shuah Khan,
	Dave Hansen, Borislav Petkov, Peter Zijlstra, Boris Ostrovsky,
	Len Brown, Rafael J. Wysocki, Dmitry Safonov, David Matlack,
	Nadav Amit
  Cc: linux-kernel, user-mode-linux-devel, user-mode-linux-user,
	linux-fsdevel, linux-kselftest, kvm

rr (http://rr-project.org/), a userspace record-and-replay reverse-
execution debugger, would like to trap and emulate the CPUID instruction.
This would allow us to a) mask away certain hardware features that rr does
not support (e.g. RDRAND) and b) enable trace portability across machines
by providing constant results.

Newer Intel CPUs (Ivy Bridge and later) can fault when CPUID is executed at
CPL > 0. Expose this capability to userspace as a new pair of arch_prctls,
ARCH_GET_CPUID and ARCH_SET_CPUID, with two values, ARCH_CPUID_ENABLE and
ARCH_CPUID_SIGSEGV.

Since v11:
Patch 6: x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID
- Moved msr_misc_features_enable_shadow definition back to process.c to
  allow building without CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL.

Patch 7: KVM: x86: virtualize cpuid faulting
- Added cpuid faulting support to em_cpuid() as suggested by Nadav Amit.

Since v10:
Patch 1: x86/arch_prctl/64: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE2 to define sys_arch_prctl
- Updated commit message.

Patch 2: x86/arch_prctl/64: Rename do_arch_prctl to do_arch_prctl_64
- Updated commit message.
- Moved do_arch_prctl_64() declaration into the other CONFIG_X86_64 block.
- Renamed previously missed 'addr' parameters for arch_prctl functions.

Patch 3: x86/arch_prctl: Add do_arch_prctl_common
- Updated commit message.

Patch 4: x86/syscalls/32: Wire up arch_prctl on x86-32
- Updated commit message.

Patch 5: x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support
- Link to document on bugzilla.kernel.org.
- X86_FEATURE_CPUID_FAULT value changed.
- Detection code moved to intel.c, and is broken out into
  init_intel_misc_features_enables().
- PLATINFO_CPUID_FAULT is now MSR_PLATFORM_INFO_CPUID_FAULT.

Patch 6: x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID
- msr_misc_features_enable_shadow definition and initialization moved to
  intel.c
- Initializes MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES to 0.
- CPUID_FAULT_ENABLE[_BIT] is now MSR_MISC_FEATURES_ENABLES_CPUID_FAULT[_BIT].
- Fixed checkpatch.pl errors for fork()s inside the test file.
- Removed unnecessary comment in set_cpuid_mode.

Patch 7: KVM: x86: virtualize cpuid faulting
- Added Reviewed-By David Matlack.
- Changed various MSR constants to match patches 5 and 6.

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2016-11-17  2:06 [PATCH v12 0/7] x86/arch_prctl Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID for controlling the CPUID instruction Kyle Huey
2016-11-17  2:06 ` [PATCH v12 1/7] x86/arch_prctl/64: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE2 to define sys_arch_prctl Kyle Huey
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2016-11-18  7:27   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-18  7:28     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-11-18  8:16       ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-18 16:39     ` Kyle Huey
2016-11-29  9:26       ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-17  2:06 ` [PATCH v12 3/7] x86/arch_prctl: Add do_arch_prctl_common Kyle Huey
2016-11-17  2:06 ` [PATCH v12 4/7] x86/syscalls/32: Wire up arch_prctl on x86-32 Kyle Huey
2016-11-18  7:30   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-17  2:06 ` [PATCH v12 5/7] x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support Kyle Huey
2016-11-17 16:51   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-11-17  2:06 ` [PATCH v12 6/7] x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID Kyle Huey
2016-11-18  8:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-18  8:49     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-11-21  8:27       ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-22 17:26         ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-11-18 15:55     ` Kyle Huey
2016-11-18 17:32     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-11-17  2:06 ` [PATCH v12 7/7] KVM: x86: virtualize cpuid faulting Kyle Huey
2016-11-17 12:31   ` Paolo Bonzini

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