forked from Minki/linux
mainlining shenanigans
8d8923115f
Rework the masking in the out-of-range CPUID logic to handle the
Hypervisor sub-classes, as well as the Centaur class if the guest
virtual CPU vendor is Centaur.
Masking against 0x80000000 only handles basic and extended leafs, which
results in Hypervisor range checks being performed against the basic
CPUID class, and Centuar range checks being performed against the
Extended class. E.g. if CPUID.0x40000000.EAX returns 0x4000000A and
there is no entry for CPUID.0x40000006, then function 0x40000006 would
be incorrectly reported as out of bounds.
While there is no official definition of what constitutes a class, the
convention established for Hypervisor classes effectively uses bits 31:8
as the mask by virtue of checking for different bases in increments of
0x100, e.g. KVM advertises its CPUID functions starting at 0x40000100
when HyperV features are advertised at the default base of 0x40000000.
The bad range check doesn't cause functional problems for any known VMM
because out-of-range semantics only come into play if the exact entry
isn't found, and VMMs either support a very limited Hypervisor range,
e.g. the official KVM range is 0x40000000-0x40000001 (effectively no
room for undefined leafs) or explicitly defines gaps to be zero, e.g.
Qemu explicitly creates zeroed entries up to the Centaur and Hypervisor
limits (the latter comes into play when providing HyperV features).
The bad behavior can be visually confirmed by dumping CPUID output in
the guest when running Qemu with a stable TSC, as Qemu extends the limit
of range 0x40000000 to 0x40000010 to advertise VMware's cpuid_freq,
without defining zeroed entries for 0x40000002 - 0x4000000f.
Note, documentation of Centaur/VIA CPUs is hard to come by. Designating
0xc0000000 - 0xcfffffff as the Centaur class is a best guess as to the
behavior of a real Centaur/VIA CPU.
Fixes:
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| certs | ||
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| Documentation | ||
| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
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.