From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
To: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Cc: kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@kernel.org>,
Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>,
Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] KVM: VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 09:57:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALMp9eR5vaMPKVRftRWaxVyBp8sZpgeGjKPHZjt-WvMpVESgcw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1517522386-18410-5-git-send-email-karahmed@amazon.de>
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 1:59 PM, KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de> wrote:
> [ Based on a patch from Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> ]
>
> Add direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL for guests. This is needed for
> guests that will only mitigate Spectre V2 through IBRS+IBPB and will not
> be using a retpoline+IBPB based approach.
>
> To avoid the overhead of saving and restoring the MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL for
> guests that do not actually use the MSR, only start saving and restoring
> when a non-zero is written to it.
>
> No attempt is made to handle STIBP here, intentionally. Filtering STIBP
> may be added in a future patch, which may require trapping all writes
> if we don't want to pass it through directly to the guest.
>
> [dwmw2: Clean up CPUID bits, save/restore manually, handle reset]
>
> Cc: Asit Mallick <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
> Cc: Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Cc: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-02 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-01 21:59 [PATCH v6 0/5] KVM: Expose speculation control feature to guests KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 1/5] KVM: x86: Update the reverse_cpuid list to include CPUID_7_EDX KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 17:37 ` Jim Mattson
2018-02-03 22:50 ` [tip:x86/pti] KVM/x86: " tip-bot for KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] KVM: x86: Add IBPB support KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 17:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 18:02 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 19:56 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 20:16 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 20:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 20:31 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 20:52 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2018-02-05 19:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-05 19:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-03 22:50 ` [tip:x86/pti] KVM/x86: " tip-bot for Ashok Raj
2018-02-16 3:44 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] KVM: x86: " Jim Mattson
2018-02-16 4:22 ` Andi Kleen
2018-05-03 1:27 ` Wanpeng Li
2018-05-03 9:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-05-03 12:01 ` Wanpeng Li
2018-05-03 12:46 ` Tian, Kevin
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 3/5] KVM: VMX: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 10:53 ` Darren Kenny
2018-02-02 17:35 ` Jim Mattson
2018-02-02 17:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-03 22:51 ` [tip:x86/pti] KVM/VMX: " tip-bot for KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 4/5] KVM: VMX: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 11:03 ` Darren Kenny
2018-02-02 11:27 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 17:53 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 18:05 ` David Woodhouse
2018-02-02 18:19 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2018-02-02 17:57 ` Jim Mattson [this message]
2018-02-03 22:51 ` [tip:x86/pti] KVM/VMX: " tip-bot for KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-01 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 5/5] KVM: SVM: " KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-02-02 11:06 ` Darren Kenny
2018-02-02 18:02 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-01-12 1:32 [PATCH 0/5] Add support for IBRS & IBPB KVM support Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86/ibrs: Introduce native_rdmsrl, and native_wrmsrl Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 1:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-12 1:52 ` Raj, Ashok
2018-01-12 2:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-12 3:01 ` Raj, Ashok
2018-01-12 5:03 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-12 16:28 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-01-12 16:28 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-13 6:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-13 13:52 ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2018-01-13 15:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-13 6:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-01-12 7:54 ` Greg KH
2018-01-12 12:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86/ibrs: Add new helper macros to save/restore MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86/ibrs: Add direct access support for MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 1:58 ` Dave Hansen
2018-01-12 3:14 ` Raj, Ashok
2018-01-12 9:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-12 10:09 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-15 13:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-15 13:59 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-15 14:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86/svm: Direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 7:23 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-12 9:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-12 10:13 ` David Woodhouse
2018-01-12 12:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-12 15:14 ` Tom Lendacky
2018-01-12 1:32 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86/feature: Detect the x86 feature Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier Ashok Raj
2018-01-12 10:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-01-12 12:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-01-12 12:39 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-12 15:21 ` Tom Lendacky
2018-01-12 15:31 ` Tom Lendacky
2018-01-12 15:36 ` Woodhouse, David
2018-01-12 17:06 ` Tom Lendacky
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