On 5/31/2023 4:43 PM, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
> Initial virtualization of Intel PT was added by making it as fixed
> feature set of ICX's capabilities. However, it breaks the Intel PT exposure
> on SPR machine because SPR has less PT capabilities of
> CPUID(0x14,1):EBX[15:0].
>
> This series aims to make Intel PT configurable that named CPU model can
> define its own PT feature set and "-cpu host/max" can use host pass-through
> feature set of Intel PT.
>
> At the same time, it also ensures existing named CPU model to generate
> the same PT CPUID set as before to not break live migration.
ping for comments.
QEMU maintainers,
It has been nearly two years since the first version. It's very
appreciated if any of you can express any thought on it. E.g., the basic
question, whether this is an useful fix? or just a vain work?
> Changes in v4:
> - rebase to 51bdb0b57a2d "Merge tag 'pull-tcg-20230530' of https://gitlab.com/rth7680/qemu into staging"
> - cleanup Patch 6 by updating the commit message and remove unnecessary
> handlng;
>
> v3: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20221208062513.2589476-1-xiaoyao.li@intel.com/
> - rebase to v7.2.0-rc4
> - Add bit 7 and 8 of FEAT_14_0_EBX in Patch 3
>
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20220808085834.3227541-1-xiaoyao.li@intel.com/
> Changes in v2:
> - split out 3 patches (per Eduardo's comment)
> - determine if the named cpu model uses default Intel PT capabilities (to
> be compatible with the old behavior) by condition that all PT feature
> leaves are all zero.
>
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20210909144150.1728418-1-xiaoyao.li@intel.com/
>
>
> Xiaoyao Li (8):
> target/i386: Print CPUID subleaf info for unsupported feature
> target/i386/intel-pt: Fix INTEL_PT_ADDR_RANGES_NUM_MASK
> target/i386/intel-pt: Introduce FeatureWordInfo for Intel PT CPUID
> leaf 0x14
> target/i386/intel-pt: print special message for
> INTEL_PT_ADDR_RANGES_NUM
> target/i386/intel-pt: Rework/rename the default INTEL-PT feature set
> target/i386/intel-pt: Enable host pass through of Intel PT
> target/i386/intel-pt: Define specific PT feature set for
> IceLake-server, Snowridge and SapphireRapids
> target/i386/intel-pt: Access MSR_IA32_RTIT_ADDRn based on guest CPUID
> configuration
>
> target/i386/cpu.c | 293 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> target/i386/cpu.h | 39 +++++-
> target/i386/kvm/kvm.c | 8 +-
> 3 files changed, 261 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)
>