[PATCH v7 0/6] x86/arch_prctl Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID for controlling the CPUID instruction

From	Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH v7 0/6] x86/arch_prctl Add ARCH_[GET\|SET]_CPUID for controlling the CPUID instruction
Date	2016-10-19 04:10 +0200
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rr (http://rr-project.org/), a userspace record-and-replay reverse-
execution debugger, would like to trap and emulate the CPUID instruction.
This would allow us to a) mask away certain hardware features that rr does
not support (e.g. RDRAND) and b) enable trace portability across machines
by providing constant results.

Newer Intel CPUs (Ivy Bridge and later) can fault when CPUID is executed at
CPL > 0.  Expose this capability to userspace as a new pair of arch_prctls,
ARCH_GET_CPUID and ARCH_SET_CPUID, with two values, ARCH_CPUID_ENABLE and
ARCH_CPUID_SIGSEGV.

v6 did not get any feedback, so I included the changes since v5.

Since v6:
- Rebased to 4.9-rc1 (primarily over the new VDSO arch_prctls and the new pkey
  entries in the syscall table)

Since v5:

Patch 3:
- do_arch_prctl is again do_arch_prctl_common

Patch 6:
- Added static qualifiers on get/set_cpuid_mode
- Braced ifs in disable/enable_cpuid
- Renamed arch_post_exec to arch_setup_new_exec

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[PATCH v7 0/6] x86/arch_prctl Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID for controlling the CPUID instruction Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> - 2016-10-19 04:10 +0200
  [PATCH v7 5/6] x86/cpufeature: Detect CPUID faulting support Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> - 2016-10-19 04:10 +0200
  [PATCH v7 3/6] x86/arch_prctl: Add do_arch_prctl_common Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> - 2016-10-19 04:10 +0200
  [PATCH v7 1/6] x86/arch_prctl/64: Use SYSCALL_DEFINE2 to define sys_arch_prctl Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> - 2016-10-19 04:10 +0200
  [PATCH v7 4/6] x86/syscalls/32: Wire up arch_prctl on x86-32 Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> - 2016-10-19 04:10 +0200
  [PATCH v7 6/6] x86/arch_prctl: Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> - 2016-10-19 04:10 +0200
  [PATCH v7 2/6] x86/arch_prctl/64: Rename do_arch_prctl to do_arch_prctl_64 Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> - 2016-10-19 04:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] x86/arch_prctl Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID for  controlling the CPUID instruction Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> - 2016-10-25 07:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] x86/arch_prctl Add ARCH_[GET|SET]_CPUID for  controlling the CPUID instruction Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-25 19:00 +0200

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