linux/include
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
..
acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2011-11-07 10:13:52 -08:00
asm-generic asm-generic/unistd.h: support new process_vm_{readv,write} syscalls 2011-12-03 15:31:48 -05:00
crypto crypto: Add a report function pointer to crypto_type 2011-10-21 14:24:03 +02:00
drm drm/radeon/kms: add some new pci ids 2011-12-14 12:29:03 +00:00
keys
linux KVM: Don't automatically expose the TSC deadline timer in cpuid 2011-12-26 13:27:44 +02:00
math-emu
media Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2011-12-20 10:49:39 -08:00
misc [media] altera-stapl: it is time to move out from staging 2011-09-23 15:00:57 -03:00
mtd mtd: kill old field for `struct mtd_info_user' 2011-09-11 15:57:44 +03:00
net net: relax rcvbuf limits 2011-12-23 02:15:14 -05:00
pcmcia
rdma Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 2011-11-01 10:51:38 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] fcoe: fix fcoe in a DCB environment by adding DCB notifiers to set skb priority 2011-12-15 11:02:07 +04:00
sound Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
target target: remove the unused se_dev_list 2011-12-06 06:00:57 +00:00
trace writeback: show writeback reason with __print_symbolic 2011-12-18 14:20:17 +08:00
video ARM: OMAP: HWMOD: Unify DSS resets for OMAPs 2011-11-08 03:16:13 -07:00
xen Revert "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add xs_reset_watches to shutdown watches from old kernel" 2011-12-19 09:30:35 -05:00
Kbuild