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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index bbe445e6c113..61bf1f693e2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -1825,15 +1825,18 @@ emulate them efficiently. The fields in each entry are defined as follows: the values returned by the cpuid instruction for this function/index combination -The TSC deadline timer feature (CPUID leaf 1, ecx[24]) is always returned -as false, since the feature depends on KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP for local APIC -support. Instead it is reported via:: +x2APIC (CPUID leaf 1, ecx[21) and TSC deadline timer (CPUID leaf 1, ecx[24]) +may be returned as true, but they depend on KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP for in-kernel +emulation of the local APIC. TSC deadline timer support is also reported via:: ioctl(KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION, KVM_CAP_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER) if that returns true and you use KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, or if you emulate the feature in userspace, then you can enable the feature for KVM_SET_CPUID2. +Enabling x2APIC in KVM_SET_CPUID2 requires KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP as KVM doesn't +support forwarding x2APIC MSR accesses to userspace, i.e. KVM does not support +emulating x2APIC in userspace. 4.47 KVM_PPC_GET_PVINFO ----------------------- diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c index 922ad598787a..f0ee773704d5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ void kvm_set_cpu_caps(void) EMULATED_F(X2APIC) | F(MOVBE) | F(POPCNT) | - 0 /* Reserved*/ | + EMULATED_F(TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER) | F(AES) | F(XSAVE) | 0 /* OSXSAVE */ | |