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KVM: x86: Control guest reads of MSR_PLATFORM_INFO

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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>
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Drew Schmitt
2018-08-20 10:32:15 -07:00
committed by Paolo Bonzini
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commit 6fbbde9a19
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@@ -4522,6 +4522,15 @@ hpage module parameter is not set to 1, -EINVAL is returned.
While it is generally possible to create a huge page backed VM without
this capability, the VM will not be able to run.
7.14 KVM_CAP_MSR_PLATFORM_INFO
Architectures: x86
Parameters: args[0] whether feature should be enabled or not
With this capability, a guest may read the MSR_PLATFORM_INFO MSR. Otherwise,
a #GP would be raised when the guest tries to access. Currently, this
capability does not enable write permissions of this MSR for the guest.
8. Other capabilities.
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