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CPUID.(EAX=7,ECX=0):EBX.FDP_EXCPTN_ONLY[bit 6] and
CPUID.(EAX=7,ECX=0):EBX.ZERO_FCS_FDS[bit 13] are "defeature"
bits. Unlike most of the other CPUID feature bits, these bits are
clear if the features are present and set if the features are not
present. These bits should be reported in KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID,
because if these bits are set on hardware, they cannot be cleared in
the guest CPUID. Doing so would claim guest support for a feature that
the hardware doesn't support and that can't be efficiently emulated.
Of course, any software (e.g WIN87EM.DLL) expecting these features to
be present likely predates these CPUID feature bits and therefore
doesn't know to check for them anyway.
Aaron Lewis added the corresponding X86_FEATURE macros in
commit cbb99c0f58 ("x86/cpufeatures: Add FDP_EXCPTN_ONLY and
ZERO_FCS_FDS"), with the intention of reporting these bits in
KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID, but I was unable to find a proposed patch on
the kvm list.
Opportunistically reordered the CPUID_7_0_EBX capability bits from
least to most significant.
Cc: Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220204001348.2844660-1-jmattson@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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.