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[PATCH v2 4/4] x86/cpuid: Advertise SERIALIZE by default to guests


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  • From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
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I've played with SERIALIZE, TSXLDTRK, MOVDIRI and MOVDIR64 on real hardware,
and they all seem fine, including emulation support.

SERIALIZE exists specifically to have a userspace usable serialising operation
without other side effects.  (The only other two choices are CPUID which is a
VMExit under virt and clobbers 4 registers, and IRET-to-self which very slow
and consumes content from the stack.)

TSXLDTRK is a niche TSX feature, and TSX itself is niche outside of demos of
speculative sidechannels.  Leave the feature opt-in until a usecase is found,
in an effort to preempt the multiple person years of effort it has taken to
mop up TSX issues impacting every processor line.

MOVDIRI and MOVDIR64 are harder to judge.  They're architectural building
blocks towards ENQCMD{,S} without obvious usecases on their own.  They're of
no use to domains without PCI devices, so leave them opt-in for now.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>

v2:
 * New
---
 xen/include/public/arch-x86/cpufeatureset.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/include/public/arch-x86/cpufeatureset.h 
b/xen/include/public/arch-x86/cpufeatureset.h
index 647ee9e5e277..0b399375566f 100644
--- a/xen/include/public/arch-x86/cpufeatureset.h
+++ b/xen/include/public/arch-x86/cpufeatureset.h
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ XEN_CPUFEATURE(SRBDS_CTRL,    9*32+ 9) /*   
MSR_MCU_OPT_CTRL and RNGDS_MITG_DIS.
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(MD_CLEAR,      9*32+10) /*A  VERW clears microarchitectural 
buffers */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT, 9*32+11) /*! June 2021 TSX defeaturing in 
microcode. */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(TSX_FORCE_ABORT, 9*32+13) /* MSR_TSX_FORCE_ABORT.RTM_ABORT */
-XEN_CPUFEATURE(SERIALIZE,     9*32+14) /*a  SERIALIZE insn */
+XEN_CPUFEATURE(SERIALIZE,     9*32+14) /*A  SERIALIZE insn */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(TSXLDTRK,      9*32+16) /*a  TSX load tracking suspend/resume 
insns */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(CET_IBT,       9*32+20) /*   CET - Indirect Branch Tracking */
 XEN_CPUFEATURE(IBRSB,         9*32+26) /*A  IBRS and IBPB support (used by 
Intel) */
-- 
2.11.0




 


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