It is useful to know which CPUs satisfy each x86-64 ABI
compatibility level, when dealing with guest OS that require
something newer than the baseline ABI.
These ABI levels are defined in:
https://gitlab.com/x86-psABIs/x86-64-ABI/
and supported by GCC, Clang, glibc and more.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210607135843.196595-2-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
The preferred syntax is to use "foo=on|off", rather than a bare
"+foo" or "-foo"
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210216191027.595031-10-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
- Add the '-noTSX' variants for CascadeLake and SkyLake.
- Document the three MSR bits: 'mds-no', 'taa-no', and 'tsx-ctrl'
Two confusing things about 'mds-no' (and the first point applies to
the other two MSRs too):
(1) The 'mds-no' bit will _not_ show up in the guest's /proc/cpuinfo.
Rather it is used to fill in the guest's sysfs:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:Not affected
Paolo confirmed on IRC as such.
(2) There are _three_ variants[+] of CascadeLake CPUs, with different
stepping levels: 5, 6, and 7. To quote wikichip.org[*]:
"note that while steppings 6 & 7 are fully mitigated, earlier
stepping 5 is not protected against MSBDS, MLPDS, nor MDSUM"
The above is also indicated in the Intel's document[+], as
indicated by "No" under the three columns of MFBDS, MSBDS, and
MLPDS.
I've expressed this in the docs without belabouring the details.
[+] https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insights/processors-affected-microarchitectural-data-sampling
[*] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/cascade_lake#Key_changes_from_Skylake
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200225165618.6571-3-kchamart@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This doc was originally written by Daniel P. Berrangé
<berrange@redhat.com>, introduced via commit[1]: 2544e9e4aa (docs: add
guidance on configuring CPU models for x86, 2018-06-27).
In this patch:
- 1-1 conversion of Texinfo to rST, besides a couple of minor
tweaks that are too trivial to mention. (Thanks to Stephen
Finucane on IRC for the suggestion to use rST "definition lists"
instead of bullets in some places.)
Further modifications will be done via a separate patch.
- rST and related infra changes: manual page generation, Makefile
fixes, clean up references to qemu-cpu-models.texi, update year in
the copyright notice, etc.
[1] https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=2544e9e4aa
As part of the conversion, we use a more generic 'author' attribution
for the manpage than we previously had, as agreed with the original
author Dan Berrange.
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20200228153619.9906-16-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Message-id: 20200226113034.6741-15-pbonzini@redhat.com
[Move macros to defs.rst.inc, split in x86 and MIPS parts,
make qemu-cpu-models.rst a standalone document. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[PMM: Move defs.rst.inc setup to its own commit;
fix minor issues with MAINTAINERS file updates;
drop copyright date change; keep capitalization of
"QEMU Project developers" consistent with other uses;
minor Makefile fixups]
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
