[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm/x86: enlarge number of possible CPUID leaves

[Andre Przywara]

Currently the number of CPUID leaves KVM handles is limited to 40.
My desktop machine (AthlonII) already has 35 and future CPUs will
expand this well beyond the limit. Extend the limit to 80 to make
room for future processors.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <address@hidden>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Hi,
I found that either KVM or QEMU (possibly both) are broken in respect
to handling more CPUID entries than the limit dictates. KVM will
return -E2BIG, which is the same error as if the user hasn't provided
enough space to hold all entries. Now QEMU will continue to enlarge
the allocated memory until it gets into an out-of-memory condition.
I have tried to fix this with teaching KVM how to deal with a capped
number of entries (there are some bugs in the current code), but this
will limit the number of CPUID entries KVM handles, which will surely
cut of the lastly appended PV leaves.
A proper fix would be to make this allocation dynamic. Is this a
feasible way or will this lead to issues or side-effects?

Regards,
Andre.

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 54e42c8..3cc80c4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 #define KVM_NUM_MMU_PAGES (1 << KVM_MMU_HASH_SHIFT)
 #define KVM_MIN_FREE_MMU_PAGES 5
 #define KVM_REFILL_PAGES 25
-#define KVM_MAX_CPUID_ENTRIES 40
+#define KVM_MAX_CPUID_ENTRIES 80
 #define KVM_NR_FIXED_MTRR_REGION 88
 #define KVM_NR_VAR_MTRR 8
 
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