ACK/Cmnt: [SRU][FOCAL][PATCH 1/1] kvm: svm: Update svm_xsaves_supported
Stefan Bader
stefan.bader at canonical.com
Wed Sep 16 15:26:34 UTC 2020
On 15.09.20 22:53, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> From: Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis at google.com>
>
> AMD CPUs now support XSAVES in a limited fashion (they require IA32_XSS
> to be zero).
>
> AMD has no equivalent of Intel's "Enable XSAVES/XRSTORS" VM-execution
> control. Instead, XSAVES is always available to the guest when supported
> on the host.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson at google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lewis <aaronlewis at google.com>
> Change-Id: I40dc2c682eb0d38c2208d95d5eb7bbb6c47f6317
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1887490
> (cherry-picked from commit 52297436199dde85be557ee6bc779f5b96082f74)
> Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <william.gray at canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> ---
I would not insist on the location of the BugLink line but "cherry picked"
should be used and when adding that we can as well move the BugLink. Personally
I would leave one empty line between the old sob block and the new one but that
is opinion as well.
-Stefan
> arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> index 3243a80ea32c..027004daec56 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> @@ -6019,7 +6019,7 @@ static bool svm_mpx_supported(void)
>
> static bool svm_xsaves_supported(void)
> {
> - return false;
> + return boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_XSAVES);
> }
>
> static bool svm_umip_emulated(void)
>
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