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x86/cpu: Add new VMX feature, Tertiary VM-Execution control
authorRobert Hoo <robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:32:40 +0000 (23:32 +0800)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Wed, 8 Jun 2022 08:47:13 +0000 (04:47 -0400)
commitd333500d1b19ee839b052ef1679b324e8cb49751
tree3177aac0a3aaec37a3343f707c4d0f12b7a048ab
parentaebf566b5bccb0e9d4915e17432b915d2d507507
x86/cpu: Add new VMX feature, Tertiary VM-Execution control

A new 64-bit control field "tertiary processor-based VM-execution
controls", is defined [1]. It's controlled by bit 17 of the primary
processor-based VM-execution controls.

Different from its brother VM-execution fields, this tertiary VM-
execution controls field is 64 bit. So it occupies 2 vmx_feature_leafs,
TERTIARY_CTLS_LOW and TERTIARY_CTLS_HIGH.

Its companion VMX capability reporting MSR,MSR_IA32_VMX_PROCBASED_CTLS3
(0x492), is also semantically different from its brothers, whose 64 bits
consist of all allow-1, rather than 32-bit allow-0 and 32-bit allow-1 [1][2].
Therefore, its init_vmx_capabilities() is a little different from others.

[1] ISE 6.2 "VMCS Changes"
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/download/intel-architecture-instruction-set-extensions-programming-reference.html

[2] SDM Vol3. Appendix A.3

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Hoo <robert.hu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zeng Guang <guang.zeng@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20220419153240.11549-1-guang.zeng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
arch/x86/include/asm/vmxfeatures.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feat_ctl.c