x86/intel: Expose MSR_ARCH_CAPS to dom0

The overhead of (the lack of) MDS_NO alone has been measured at 30% on some
workloads.  While we're not in a position yet to offer MSR_ARCH_CAPS generally
to guests, dom0 doesn't migrate, so we can pass a subset of hardware values
straight through.

This will cause PVH dom0's not to use KPTI by default, and all dom0's not to
use VERW flushing by default, and to use eIBRS in preference to retpoline on
recent Intel CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
master commit: e46474278a0e87e2b32ad5dd5fc20e8d2cb0688b
master date: 2020-08-31 13:43:26 +0100

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/cpuid.c b/xen/arch/x86/cpuid.c
index 63a03ef1e5e66bfe82fcdec947cc27eddf592271..4b424fac95c5f47af78f7002d2d4ed0c69d76655 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/cpuid.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/cpuid.c
@@ -719,6 +719,14 @@ int init_domain_cpuid_policy(struct domain *d)
     if ( d->disable_migrate )
         p->extd.itsc = cpu_has_itsc;
 
+    /*
+     * Expose the "hardware speculation behaviour" bits of ARCH_CAPS to dom0,
+     * so dom0 can turn off workarounds as appropriate.  Temporary, until the
+     * domain policy logic gains a better understanding of MSRs.
+     */
+    if ( is_hardware_domain(d) && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_CAPS) )
+        p->feat.arch_caps = true;
+
     d->arch.cpuid = p;
 
     recalculate_cpuid_policy(d);

diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/msr.c b/xen/arch/x86/msr.c
index 7d99c0e64c9140da073ef36c36598ae1549ab845..d72ab0fa1fbea1e03c71fe8f0b6a203a1f522792 100644 (file)
--- a/xen/arch/x86/msr.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/msr.c
@@ -130,6 +130,22 @@ int init_domain_msr_policy(struct domain *d)
     if ( !opt_dom0_cpuid_faulting && is_control_domain(d) && is_pv_domain(d) )
         mp->platform_info.cpuid_faulting = false;
 
+    /*
+     * Expose the "hardware speculation behaviour" bits of ARCH_CAPS to dom0,
+     * so dom0 can turn off workarounds as appropriate.  Temporary, until the
+     * domain policy logic gains a better understanding of MSRs.
+     */
+    if ( is_hardware_domain(d) && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_ARCH_CAPS) )
+    {
+        uint64_t val;
+
+        rdmsrl(MSR_ARCH_CAPABILITIES, val);
+
+        mp->arch_caps.raw = val &
+            (ARCH_CAPS_RDCL_NO | ARCH_CAPS_IBRS_ALL | ARCH_CAPS_RSBA |
+             ARCH_CAPS_SSB_NO | ARCH_CAPS_MDS_NO | ARCH_CAPS_TAA_NO);
+    }
+
     d->arch.msr = mp;
 
     return 0;