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During vCPU creation, process KVM's default, empty CPUID as if userspace set an empty CPUID to ensure consistent and correct behavior with respect to guest CPUID. E.g. if userspace never sets guest CPUID, KVM will never configure cr4_guest_rsvd_bits, and thus create divergent, incorrect, guest- visible behavior due to letting the guest set any KVM-supported CR4 bits despite the features not being allowed per guest CPUID. Note! This changes KVM's ABI, as lack of full CPUID processing allowed userspace to stuff garbage vCPU state, e.g. userspace could set CR4 to a guest-unsupported value via KVM_SET_SREGS. But it's extremely unlikely that this is a breaking change, as KVM already has many flows that require userspace to set guest CPUID before loading vCPU state. E.g. multiple MSR flows consult guest CPUID on host writes, and KVM_SET_SREGS itself already relies on guest CPUID being up-to-date, as KVM's validity check on CR3 consumes CPUID.0x7.1 (for LAM) and CPUID.0x80000008 (for MAXPHYADDR). Furthermore, the plan is to commit to enforcing guest CPUID for userspace writes to MSRs, at which point bypassing sregs CPUID checks is even more nonsensical. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241128013424.4096668-4-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.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 reStructuredText 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.