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commit fd706c9b1674e2858766bfbf7430534c2b26fbef upstream. Add kvm_vcpu_arch.is_amd_compatible to cache if a vCPU's vendor model is compatible with AMD, i.e. if the vCPU vendor is AMD or Hygon, along with helpers to check if a vCPU is compatible AMD vs. Intel. To handle Intel vs. AMD behavior related to masking the LVTPC entry, KVM will need to check for vendor compatibility on every PMI injection, i.e. querying for AMD will soon be a moderately hot path. Note! This subtly (or maybe not-so-subtly) makes "Intel compatible" KVM's default behavior, both if userspace omits (or never sets) CPUID 0x0 and if userspace sets a completely unknown vendor. One could argue that KVM should treat such vCPUs as not being compatible with Intel *or* AMD, but that would add useless complexity to KVM. KVM needs to do *something* in the face of vendor specific behavior, and so unless KVM conjured up a magic third option, choosing to treat unknown vendors as neither Intel nor AMD means that checks on AMD compatibility would yield Intel behavior, and checks for Intel compatibility would yield AMD behavior. And that's far worse as it would effectively yield random behavior depending on whether KVM checked for AMD vs. Intel vs. !AMD vs. !Intel. And practically speaking, all x86 CPUs follow either Intel or AMD architecture, i.e. "supporting" an unknown third architecture adds no value. Deliberately don't convert any of the existing guest_cpuid_is_intel() checks, as the Intel side of things is messier due to some flows explicitly checking for exactly vendor==Intel, versus some flows assuming anything that isn't "AMD compatible" gets Intel behavior. The Intel code will be cleaned up in the future. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-ID: <20240405235603.1173076-2-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.