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KVM: x86: Control guest reads of MSR_PLATFORM_INFO
authorDrew Schmitt <dasch@google.com>
Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:32:15 +0000 (10:32 -0700)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Wed, 19 Sep 2018 22:51:46 +0000 (00:51 +0200)
commitd861f1bb37805f65594382574327d462ba6eef24
tree39bdc75de08111b9b6a7a28e238eb8efca0841cc
parent988f399c4e5553b02bdc9ea5b6acdae401b5bcd9
KVM: x86: Control guest reads of MSR_PLATFORM_INFO

Add KVM_CAP_MSR_PLATFORM_INFO so that userspace can disable guest access
to reads of MSR_PLATFORM_INFO.

Disabling access to reads of this MSR gives userspace the control to "expose"
this platform-dependent information to guests in a clear way. As it exists
today, guests that read this MSR would get unpopulated information if userspace
hadn't already set it (and prior to this patch series, only the CPUID faulting
information could have been populated). This existing interface could be
confusing if guests don't handle the potential for incorrect/incomplete
information gracefully (e.g. zero reported for base frequency).

Signed-off-by: Drew Schmitt <dasch@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h