linux/Documentation/virtual
Jan Kiszka 4d25a066b6 KVM: Don't automatically expose the TSC deadline timer in cpuid
Unlike all of the other cpuid bits, the TSC deadline timer bit is set
unconditionally, regardless of what userspace wants.

This is broken in several ways:
 - if userspace doesn't use KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, and doesn't emulate the TSC
   deadline timer feature, a guest that uses the feature will break
 - live migration to older host kernels that don't support the TSC deadline
   timer will cause the feature to be pulled from under the guest's feet;
   breaking it
 - guests that are broken wrt the feature will fail.

Fix by not enabling the feature automatically; instead report it to userspace.
Because the feature depends on KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP, which we cannot guarantee
will be called, we expose it via a KVM_CAP_TSC_DEADLINE_TIMER and not
KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID.

Fixes the Illumos guest kernel, which uses the TSC deadline timer feature.

[avi: add the KVM_CAP + documentation]

Reported-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2011-12-26 13:27:44 +02:00
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kvm KVM: Don't automatically expose the TSC deadline timer in cpuid 2011-12-26 13:27:44 +02:00
lguest doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
uml UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt: fix a typo 2011-11-02 14:15:40 +01:00
00-INDEX virtio: Add text copy of spec to Documentation/virtual. 2011-08-15 10:15:10 +09:30
virtio-spec.txt virtio: Add text copy of spec to Documentation/virtual. 2011-08-15 10:15:10 +09:30