Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] x86/cpufeatures: Combine word 11 and 12 into new scattered features word 11

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 08:24:58AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:57:34PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 07:39:12AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > KVM can't handle Linux-defined leafs without extra tricks
> > 
> > and that's what I'm proposing - an extra trick.
> 
> It's not a trick, it's bug suppression.
> 
> Try running a kernel built with only patches 1/2 and 2/2 applied, along
> with KVM's assertions removed.  It'll probably boot fine since most of the
> affected features are option things, but Linux's feature reporting will be
> all kinds of screwed up.
> 
> E.g. this WARN triggers because CPUID_7_EDX is 17, not 18 as expected,

We can decrement NCAPINTS and word 18 in the header. The BUILD_BUG_ONs
should not fire then too.

But the easier thing is to not remove any defines in the enum
cpuid_leafs thing so that the capabilities array has the proper size for
after patch 2.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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