Re: [PATCH v10 5/7] x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Nov 08 2016 - 14:10:54 EST


On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Kyle Huey wrote:

> Intel supports faulting on the CPUID instruction beginning with Ivy Bridge.
> When enabled, the processor will fault on attempts to execute the CPUID
> instruction with CPL>0. This will allow a ptracer to emulate the CPUID
> instruction.
>
> Bit 31 of MSR_PLATFORM_INFO advertises support for this feature. It is
> documented in detail in Section 2.3.2 of
> http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/application-notes/virtualization-technology-flexmigration-application-note.pdf

Can you please stick that document into the kernel bugzilla, as it's going
to be on a different place before this gets merged into Linus tree?

See: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478631281-5061-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx

> + static const struct msr_bit msr_bits[] = {
> + { X86_FEATURE_CPUID_FAULT, MSR_PLATFORM_INFO, 31 },

Can you please make that PLATINFO_CPUID_FAULT_BIT instead of 31?

Thanks,

tglx