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[v3,13/27] KVM: x86: Add a helper to detect if FRED is enabled for a vCPU

Message ID 20241001050110.3643764-14-xin@zytor.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Enable FRED with KVM VMX | expand

Commit Message

Xin Li Oct. 1, 2024, 5 a.m. UTC 
From: Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com>

Add is_fred_enabled() to detect if FRED is enabled on a vCPU.

Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com>
[ Sean: removed the "kvm_" prefix from the function name ]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Tested-by: Shan Kang <shan.kang@intel.com>
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 arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h b/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h
index b1eb46e26b2e..386c79f5dcb8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h
@@ -187,6 +187,21 @@  static __always_inline bool kvm_is_cr4_bit_set(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 	return !!kvm_read_cr4_bits(vcpu, cr4_bit);
 }
 
+/*
+ * It's enough to check just CR4.FRED (X86_CR4_FRED) to tell if
+ * a vCPU is running with FRED enabled, because:
+ * 1) CR4.FRED can be set to 1 only _after_ IA32_EFER.LMA = 1.
+ * 2) To leave IA-32e mode, CR4.FRED must be cleared first.
+ */
+static inline bool is_fred_enabled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+	return kvm_is_cr4_bit_set(vcpu, X86_CR4_FRED);
+#else
+	return false;
+#endif
+}
+
 static inline ulong kvm_read_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	if (!kvm_register_is_available(vcpu, VCPU_EXREG_CR3))