Linux kernel
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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.
Kevin Tian
authored
Always intercepting IA32_XFD causes non-negligible overhead when this
register is updated frequently in the guest.
Disable r/w emulation after intercepting the first WRMSR(IA32_XFD)
with a non-zero value.
Disable WRMSR emulation implies that IA32_XFD becomes out-of-sync
with the software states in fpstate and the per-cpu xfd cache. This
leads to two additional changes accordingly:
- Call fpu_sync_guest_vmexit_xfd_state() after vm-exit to bring
software states back in-sync with the MSR, before handle_exit_irqoff()
is called.
- Always trap #NM once write interception is disabled for IA32_XFD.
The #NM exception is rare if the guest doesn't use dynamic
features. Otherwise, there is at most one exception per guest
task given a dynamic feature.
p.s. We have confirmed that SDM is being revised to say that
when setting IA32_XFD[18] the AMX register state is not guaranteed
to be preserved. This clarification avoids adding mess for a creative
guest which sets IA32_XFD[18]=1 before saving active AMX state to
its own storage.
Signed-off-by: 
Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: 
Jing Liu <jing2.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: 
Yang Zhong <yang.zhong@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20220105123532.12586-22-yang.zhong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: 
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