From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/28] xen/x86: Annotate special features
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:04:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160316180414.GG18336@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458056124-8024-8-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 03:35:03PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Some bits in a featureset are not simple a indication of new functionality,
> and require special handling.
>
> APIC, OSXSAVE and OSPKE are fast-forwards of other pieces of state;
> IA32_APIC_BASE.EN, CR4.OSXSAVE and CR4.OSPKE. Xen will take care of filling
> these appropriately at runtime.
>
> FDP_EXCP_ONLY and NO_FPU_SEL are bits indicating reduced functionality in the
> x87 pipeline. The effects of these cannot be hidden from the guest, so the
> host values will always be provided.
>
> HTT and CMP_LEGACY indicate how to interpret other cpuid leaves. In most
> cases, the toolstack value will be used (with the expectation that these flags
> will match the other provided topology information). However with cpuid
> masking, the host values are presented as masking cannot influence what the
> guest sees in the dependent leaves.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-15 15:34 [PATCH RFC v3 00/28] x86: Improvements to cpuid handling for guests Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 15:34 ` [PATCH v3 01/28] xen/x86: Drop unused and non-useful feature definitions Andrew Cooper
2016-03-16 7:53 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-16 9:49 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-22 14:06 ` Doug Goldstein
2016-03-22 14:38 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-15 15:34 ` [PATCH v3 02/28] xen/x86: Rename features to be closer to the vendor definitions Andrew Cooper
2016-03-16 8:01 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-17 19:46 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 15:34 ` [PATCH v3 03/28] xen/public: Export cpu featureset information in the public API Andrew Cooper
2016-03-16 8:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-22 10:39 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-18 15:52 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 04/28] xen/x86: Script to automatically process featureset information Andrew Cooper
2016-03-16 8:41 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 05/28] xen/x86: Collect more cpuid feature leaves Andrew Cooper
2016-03-16 8:50 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 06/28] xen/x86: Mask out unknown features from Xen's capabilities Andrew Cooper
2016-03-16 18:01 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 07/28] xen/x86: Annotate special features Andrew Cooper
2016-03-16 18:04 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2016-03-18 16:29 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 08/28] xen/x86: Annotate VM applicability in featureset Andrew Cooper
2016-03-16 18:15 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-18 16:57 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-18 18:56 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-21 11:53 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-21 13:39 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 09/28] xen/x86: Calculate maximum host and guest featuresets Andrew Cooper
2016-03-16 18:24 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-18 17:09 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-22 11:23 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-22 12:39 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-22 14:37 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-22 14:52 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-22 15:01 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-22 16:10 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 10/28] xen/x86: Generate deep dependencies of features Andrew Cooper
2016-03-17 19:45 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-17 20:14 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-17 20:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-21 15:41 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 11/28] xen/x86: Clear dependent features when clearing a cpu cap Andrew Cooper
2016-03-17 19:51 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-17 19:56 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-28 15:02 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-21 15:45 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 12/28] xen/x86: Improve disabling of features which have dependencies Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 13/28] xen/x86: Improvements to in-hypervisor cpuid sanity checks Andrew Cooper
2016-03-21 16:11 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-22 15:30 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 14/28] x86/cpu: Move set_cpumask() calls into c_early_init() Andrew Cooper
2016-03-21 16:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 15/28] x86/cpu: Sysctl and common infrastructure for levelling context switching Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 17:35 ` Joao Martins
2016-03-15 19:29 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 19:34 ` Joao Martins
2016-03-21 16:23 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-22 15:57 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-22 16:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 16/28] x86/cpu: Rework AMD masking MSR setup Andrew Cooper
2016-03-21 16:51 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-21 16:55 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 17/28] x86/cpu: Rework Intel masking/faulting setup Andrew Cooper
2016-03-21 16:44 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 18/28] x86/cpu: Context switch cpuid masks and faulting state in context_switch() Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 19/28] x86/pv: Provide custom cpumasks for PV domains Andrew Cooper
2016-03-21 16:53 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 20/28] x86/domctl: Update PV domain cpumasks when setting cpuid policy Andrew Cooper
2016-03-21 17:06 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-22 16:37 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-22 16:51 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 21/28] xen+tools: Export maximum host and guest cpu featuresets via SYSCTL Andrew Cooper
2016-03-16 18:23 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-16 20:38 ` David Scott
2016-03-22 8:43 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-22 20:39 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 22/28] tools/libxc: Modify bitmap operations to take void pointers Andrew Cooper
2016-03-16 15:24 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-03-17 12:17 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 23/28] tools/libxc: Use public/featureset.h for cpuid policy generation Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 24/28] tools/libxc: Expose the automatically generated cpu featuremask information Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 25/28] tools: Utility for dealing with featuresets Andrew Cooper
2016-03-16 18:23 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 26/28] tools/libxc: Wire a featureset through to cpuid policy logic Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 27/28] tools/libxc: Use featuresets rather than guesswork Andrew Cooper
2016-03-15 15:35 ` [PATCH v3 28/28] tools/libxc: Calculate xstate cpuid leaf from guest information Andrew Cooper
2016-03-16 18:23 ` Wei Liu
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