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Re: [PATCH v10 5/7] x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support

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On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Kyle Huey wrote:

> Intel supports faulting on the CPUID instruction beginning with Ivy Bridge.
> When enabled, the processor will fault on attempts to execute the CPUID
> instruction with CPL>0. This will allow a ptracer to emulate the CPUID
> instruction.
> 
> Bit 31 of MSR_PLATFORM_INFO advertises support for this feature. It is
> documented in detail in Section 2.3.2 of
> http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/application-notes/virtualization-technology-flexmigration-application-note.pdf

Can you please stick that document into the kernel bugzilla, as it's going
to be on a different place before this gets merged into Linus tree?

See: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478631281-5061-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com

> +	static const struct msr_bit msr_bits[] = {
> +		{ X86_FEATURE_CPUID_FAULT,	MSR_PLATFORM_INFO, 31 },

Can you please make that PLATINFO_CPUID_FAULT_BIT instead of 31?

Thanks,

	tglx

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[PATCH v10 5/7] x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> - 2016-11-08 19:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v10 5/7] x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-11-08 20:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v10 5/7] x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> - 2016-11-08 20:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v10 5/7] x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-11-09 12:20 +0100

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