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Userspace that does not know about KVM_GET_MSR_FEATURE_INDEX_LIST will generally use the default value for MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES. When this happens and the host has tsx=on, it is possible to end up with virtual machines that have HLE and RTM disabled, but TSX_CTRL available. If the fleet is then switched to tsx=off, kvm_get_arch_capabilities() will clear the ARCH_CAP_TSX_CTRL_MSR bit and it will not be possible to use the tsx=off hosts as migration destinations, even though the guests do not have TSX enabled. To allow this migration, allow guests to write to their TSX_CTRL MSR, while keeping the host MSR unchanged for the entire life of the guests. This ensures that TSX remains disabled and also saves MSR reads and writes, and it's okay to do because with tsx=off we know that guests will not have the HLE and RTM features in their CPUID. (If userspace sets bogus CPUID data, we do not expect HLE and RTM to work in guests anyway). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: cbbaa2727aa3 ("KVM: x86: fix presentation of TSX feature in ARCH_CAPABILITIES") Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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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.