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Since commit5f76f6f5ff("KVM: nVMX: Do not expose MPX VMX controls when guest MPX disabled"), KVM has taken ownership of the "load IA32_BNDCFGS" and "clear IA32_BNDCFGS" VMX entry/exit controls, trying to set these bits in the IA32_VMX_TRUE_{ENTRY,EXIT}_CTLS MSRs if the guest's CPUID supports MPX, and clear otherwise. The intent of the patch was to apply it to L0 in order to work around L1 kernels that lack the fix in commit691bd4340b("kvm: vmx: allow host to access guest MSR_IA32_BNDCFGS", 2017-07-04): by hiding the control bits from L0, L1 hides BNDCFGS from KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST, and the L1 bug is neutralized even in the lack of commit691bd4340b. This was perhaps a sensible kludge at the time, but a horrible idea in the long term and in fact it has not been extended to other CPUID bits like these: X86_FEATURE_LM => VM_EXIT_HOST_ADDR_SPACE_SIZE, VM_ENTRY_IA32E_MODE, VMX_MISC_SAVE_EFER_LMA X86_FEATURE_TSC => CPU_BASED_RDTSC_EXITING, CPU_BASED_USE_TSC_OFFSETTING, SECONDARY_EXEC_TSC_SCALING X86_FEATURE_INVPCID_SINGLE => SECONDARY_EXEC_ENABLE_INVPCID X86_FEATURE_MWAIT => CPU_BASED_MONITOR_EXITING, CPU_BASED_MWAIT_EXITING X86_FEATURE_INTEL_PT => SECONDARY_EXEC_PT_CONCEAL_VMX, SECONDARY_EXEC_PT_USE_GPA, VM_EXIT_CLEAR_IA32_RTIT_CTL, VM_ENTRY_LOAD_IA32_RTIT_CTL X86_FEATURE_XSAVES => SECONDARY_EXEC_XSAVES These days it's sort of common knowledge that any MSR in KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST must allow *at least* setting it with KVM_SET_MSR to a default value, so it is unlikely that something like commit5f76f6f5ffwill be needed again. So revert it, at the potential cost of breaking L1s with a 6 year old kernel. While in principle the L0 owner doesn't control what runs on L1, such an old hypervisor would probably have many other bugs. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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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.