[Qemu-devel] [PULL 2/5] target-i386: Reenable RDTSCP support on Opteron_G[345] CPU models CPU models

[Eduardo Habkost]

From: Borislav Petkov <address@hidden>

The missing functionality was added ~3 years ago with the Linux commit

  46896c73c1a4 ("KVM: svm: add support for RDTSCP")

so reenable RDTSCP support on those CPU models.

Opteron_G2 - being family 15, model 6, doesn't have RDTSCP support
(the real hardware doesn't have it. K8 got RDTSCP support with the NPT
models, i.e., models >= 0x40).

Document the host's minimum required kernel version, while at it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <address@hidden>
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
[ehabkost: moved compat properties code to pc.c]
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
---
 hw/i386/pc.c      |  3 +++
 target/i386/cpu.c | 11 ++++-------
 qemu-doc.texi     | 13 +++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/i386/pc.c b/hw/i386/pc.c
index fc65049e1d..5cac33fcb9 100644
--- a/hw/i386/pc.c
+++ b/hw/i386/pc.c
@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ struct hpet_fw_config hpet_cfg = {.count = UINT8_MAX};
 
 GlobalProperty pc_compat_3_1[] = {
     { "intel-iommu", "dma-drain", "off" },
+    { "Opteron_G3" "-" TYPE_X86_CPU, "rdtscp", "off" },
+    { "Opteron_G4" "-" TYPE_X86_CPU, "rdtscp", "off" },
+    { "Opteron_G5" "-" TYPE_X86_CPU, "rdtscp", "off" },
 };
 const size_t pc_compat_3_1_len = G_N_ELEMENTS(pc_compat_3_1);
 
diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
index bd005f5374..4cfc0daf97 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.c
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
@@ -2736,7 +2736,6 @@ static X86CPUDefinition builtin_x86_defs[] = {
             CPUID_DE | CPUID_FP87,
         .features[FEAT_1_ECX] =
             CPUID_EXT_CX16 | CPUID_EXT_SSE3,
-        /* Missing: CPUID_EXT2_RDTSCP */
         .features[FEAT_8000_0001_EDX] =
             CPUID_EXT2_LM | CPUID_EXT2_NX | CPUID_EXT2_SYSCALL,
         .features[FEAT_8000_0001_ECX] =
@@ -2760,9 +2759,9 @@ static X86CPUDefinition builtin_x86_defs[] = {
         .features[FEAT_1_ECX] =
             CPUID_EXT_POPCNT | CPUID_EXT_CX16 | CPUID_EXT_MONITOR |
             CPUID_EXT_SSE3,
-        /* Missing: CPUID_EXT2_RDTSCP */
         .features[FEAT_8000_0001_EDX] =
-            CPUID_EXT2_LM | CPUID_EXT2_NX | CPUID_EXT2_SYSCALL,
+            CPUID_EXT2_LM | CPUID_EXT2_NX | CPUID_EXT2_SYSCALL |
+            CPUID_EXT2_RDTSCP,
         .features[FEAT_8000_0001_ECX] =
             CPUID_EXT3_MISALIGNSSE | CPUID_EXT3_SSE4A |
             CPUID_EXT3_ABM | CPUID_EXT3_SVM | CPUID_EXT3_LAHF_LM,
@@ -2787,10 +2786,9 @@ static X86CPUDefinition builtin_x86_defs[] = {
             CPUID_EXT_POPCNT | CPUID_EXT_SSE42 | CPUID_EXT_SSE41 |
             CPUID_EXT_CX16 | CPUID_EXT_SSSE3 | CPUID_EXT_PCLMULQDQ |
             CPUID_EXT_SSE3,
-        /* Missing: CPUID_EXT2_RDTSCP */
         .features[FEAT_8000_0001_EDX] =
             CPUID_EXT2_LM | CPUID_EXT2_PDPE1GB | CPUID_EXT2_NX |
-            CPUID_EXT2_SYSCALL,
+            CPUID_EXT2_SYSCALL | CPUID_EXT2_RDTSCP,
         .features[FEAT_8000_0001_ECX] =
             CPUID_EXT3_FMA4 | CPUID_EXT3_XOP |
             CPUID_EXT3_3DNOWPREFETCH | CPUID_EXT3_MISALIGNSSE |
@@ -2818,10 +2816,9 @@ static X86CPUDefinition builtin_x86_defs[] = {
             CPUID_EXT_AES | CPUID_EXT_POPCNT | CPUID_EXT_SSE42 |
             CPUID_EXT_SSE41 | CPUID_EXT_CX16 | CPUID_EXT_FMA |
             CPUID_EXT_SSSE3 | CPUID_EXT_PCLMULQDQ | CPUID_EXT_SSE3,
-        /* Missing: CPUID_EXT2_RDTSCP */
         .features[FEAT_8000_0001_EDX] =
             CPUID_EXT2_LM | CPUID_EXT2_PDPE1GB | CPUID_EXT2_NX |
-            CPUID_EXT2_SYSCALL,
+            CPUID_EXT2_SYSCALL | CPUID_EXT2_RDTSCP,
         .features[FEAT_8000_0001_ECX] =
             CPUID_EXT3_TBM | CPUID_EXT3_FMA4 | CPUID_EXT3_XOP |
             CPUID_EXT3_3DNOWPREFETCH | CPUID_EXT3_MISALIGNSSE |
diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi
index f7ad1dfe4b..16b955cbf9 100644
--- a/qemu-doc.texi
+++ b/qemu-doc.texi
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 * QEMU System emulator for non PC targets::
 * QEMU Guest Agent::
 * QEMU User space emulator::
+* System requirements::
 * Implementation notes::
 * Deprecated features::
 * Supported build platforms::
@@ -2813,6 +2814,18 @@ Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes
 Run the emulation in single step mode.
 @end table
 
address@hidden System requirements
address@hidden System requirements
+
address@hidden KVM kernel module
+
+On x86_64 hosts, the default set of CPU features enabled by the KVM accelerator
+require the host to be running Linux v4.5 or newer.
+
+The OpteronG[345] CPU models require KVM support for RDTSCP, which was
+added with Linux 4.5 which is supported by the major distros. And even
+if RHEL7 has kernel 3.10, KVM there has the required functionality there
+to make it close to a 4.5 or newer kernel.
 
 @include qemu-tech.texi
 
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