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    x86: KVM: Advertise CMPccXADD CPUID to user space · 6a19d7aa
    Jiaxi Chen authored
    CMPccXADD is a new set of instructions in the latest Intel platform
    Sierra Forest. This new instruction set includes a semaphore operation
    that can compare and add the operands if condition is met, which can
    improve database performance.
    
    The bit definition:
    CPUID.(EAX=7,ECX=1):EAX[bit 7]
    
    CMPccXADD is on an expected-dense CPUID leaf and some other bits on this
    leaf have kernel usages. Given that, define this feature bit like
    X86_FEATURE_<name> in kernel. Considering CMPccXADD itself has no truly
    kernel usages and /proc/cpuinfo has too much unreadable flags, hide this
    one in /proc/cpuinfo.
    
    Advertise CMPCCXADD to KVM userspace. This is safe because there are no
    new VMX controls or additional host enabling required for guests to use
    this feature.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiaxi Chen <jiaxi.chen@linux.intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Message-Id: <20221125125845.1182922-4-jiaxi.chen@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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