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Newer AMD processors have a feature to virtualize the use of the SPEC_CTRL MSR. Presence of this feature is indicated via CPUID function 0x8000000A_EDX[20]: GuestSpecCtrl. Hypervisors are not required to enable this feature since it is automatically enabled on processors that support it. A hypervisor may wish to impose speculation controls on guest execution or a guest may want to impose its own speculation controls. Therefore, the processor implements both host and guest versions of SPEC_CTRL. When in host mode, the host SPEC_CTRL value is in effect and writes update only the host version of SPEC_CTRL. On a VMRUN, the processor loads the guest version of SPEC_CTRL from the VMCB. When the guest writes SPEC_CTRL, only the guest version is updated. On a VMEXIT, the guest version is saved into the VMCB and the processor returns to only using the host SPEC_CTRL for speculation control. The guest SPEC_CTRL is located at offset 0x2E0 in the VMCB. The effective SPEC_CTRL setting is the guest SPEC_CTRL setting or'ed with the hypervisor SPEC_CTRL setting. This allows the hypervisor to ensure a minimum SPEC_CTRL if desired. This support also fixes an issue where a guest may sometimes see an inconsistent value for the SPEC_CTRL MSR on processors that support this feature. With the current SPEC_CTRL support, the first write to SPEC_CTRL is intercepted and the virtualized version of the SPEC_CTRL MSR is not updated. When the guest reads back the SPEC_CTRL MSR, it will be 0x0, instead of the actual expected value. There isn’t a security concern here, because the host SPEC_CTRL value is or’ed with the Guest SPEC_CTRL value to generate the effective SPEC_CTRL value. KVM writes with the guest's virtualized SPEC_CTRL value to SPEC_CTRL MSR just before the VMRUN, so it will always have the actual value even though it doesn’t appear that way in the guest. The guest will only see the proper value for the SPEC_CTRL register if the guest was to write to the SPEC_CTRL register again. With Virtual SPEC_CTRL support, the save area spec_ctrl is properly saved and restored. So, the guest will always see the proper value when it is read back. Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com> Message-Id: <161188100955.28787.11816849358413330720.stgit@bmoger-ubuntu> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.