Re: [PATCH RFC] kvm: x86: Expose AVX512_BF16 feature to guest

From: Liu, Jing2
Date: Thu Jun 20 2019 - 11:15:02 EST


Hi Paolo,

On 6/20/2019 8:16 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 20/06/19 13:21, Jing Liu wrote:
+ for (i = 1; i <= times; i++) {
+ if (*nent >= maxnent)
+ goto out;
+ do_cpuid_1_ent(&entry[i], function, i);
+ entry[i].eax &= F(AVX512_BF16);
+ entry[i].ebx = 0;
+ entry[i].ecx = 0;
+ entry[i].edx = 0;
+ entry[i].flags |= KVM_CPUID_FLAG_SIGNIFCANT_INDEX;
+ ++*nent;

This woud be wrong for i > 1, so instead make this

if (entry->eax >= 1)


I am confused about the @index parameter. @index seems not used for
every case except 0x07. Since the caller function only has @index=0, so
all other cases except 0x07 put cpuid info from subleaf=0 to max subleaf.

What do you think about @index in current function? Does it mean, we
need put cpuid from index to max subleaf to @entry[i]? If so, the logic
seems as follows,

if (index == 0) {
// Put subleaf 0 into @entry
// Put subleaf 1 into @entry[1]
} else if (index < entry->eax) {
// Put subleaf 1 into @entry
} else {
// Put all zero into @entry
}

But this seems not identical with other cases, for current caller
function. Or we can simply ignore @index in 0x07 and just put all possible
subleaf info back?

and define F(AVX512_BF16) as a new constant kvm_cpuid_7_1_eax_features.

Got it.


Thanks,
Jing

Paolo