linux-kernel - [PATCHv3 1/8] x86/cpu: Add CPUID feature bit for VNMI

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Date:   Wed, 10 Aug 2022 11:42:19 +0530
From:   Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@....com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
CC:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>, <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <santosh.shukla@....com>,
        <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCHv3 1/8] x86/cpu: Add CPUID feature bit for VNMI

VNMI feature allows the hypervisor to inject NMI into the guest w/o
using Event injection mechanism, The benefit of using VNMI over the
event Injection that does not require tracking the Guest's NMI state and
intercepting the IRET for the NMI completion. VNMI achieves that by
exposing 3 capability bits in VMCB intr_cntrl which helps with
virtualizing NMI injection and NMI_Masking.

The presence of this feature is indicated via the CPUID function
0x8000000A_EDX[25].

Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@....com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
index 14ed039dff55..3d984fd9d41b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
@@ -355,6 +355,7 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_VGIF		(15*32+16) /* Virtual GIF */
 #define X86_FEATURE_X2AVIC		(15*32+18) /* Virtual x2apic */
 #define X86_FEATURE_V_SPEC_CTRL		(15*32+20) /* Virtual SPEC_CTRL */
+#define X86_FEATURE_V_NMI		(15*32+25) /* Virtual NMI */
 #define X86_FEATURE_SVME_ADDR_CHK	(15*32+28) /* "" SVME addr check */
 
 /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000007:0 (ECX), word 16 */
-- 
2.25.1