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Drop bits 5:2 from the guest's effective DEBUGCTL value, as AMD changed the architectural behavior of the bits and broke backwards compatibility. On CPUs without BusLockTrap (or at least, in APMs from before ~2023), bits 5:2 controlled the behavior of external pins: Performance-Monitoring/Breakpoint Pin-Control (PBi)—Bits 5:2, read/write. Software uses thesebits to control the type of information reported by the four external performance-monitoring/breakpoint pins on the processor. When a PBi bit is cleared to 0, the corresponding external pin (BPi) reports performance-monitor information. When a PBi bit is set to 1, the corresponding external pin (BPi) reports breakpoint information. With the introduction of BusLockTrap, presumably to be compatible with Intel CPUs, AMD redefined bit 2 to be BLCKDB: Bus Lock #DB Trap (BLCKDB)—Bit 2, read/write. Software sets this bit to enable generation of a #DB trap following successful execution of a bus lock when CPL is > 0. and redefined bits 5:3 (and bit 6) as "6:3 Reserved MBZ". Ideally, KVM would treat bits 5:2 as reserved. Defer that change to a feature cleanup to avoid breaking existing guest in LTS kernels. For now, drop the bits to retain backwards compatibility (of a sort). Note, dropping bits 5:2 is still a guest-visible change, e.g. if the guest is enabling LBRs *and* the legacy PBi bits, then the state of the PBi bits is visible to the guest, whereas now the guest will always see '0'. Reported-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-and-tested-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227222411.3490595-2-seanjc@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.