KVM: x86: Advertise EferLmsleUnsupported to userspace

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CPUID.80000008H:EBX.EferLmsleUnsupported[bit 20] is a defeature
bit. When this bit is clear, EFER.LMSLE is supported. When this bit is
set, EFER.LMLSE is unsupported. KVM has never _emulated_ EFER.LMSLE, so
KVM cannot truly support a 0-setting of this bit.

However, KVM has allowed the guest to enable EFER.LMSLE in hardware
since commit eec4b140c9 ("KVM: SVM: Allow EFER.LMSLE to be set with
nested svm"), i.e. KVM partially virtualizes long-mode segment limits _if_
they are supported by the underlying hardware.

Pass through the bit in KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID to advertise the
unavailability of EFER.LMSLE to userspace based on the raw underlying
hardware.  Attempting to enable EFER.LSMLE on such CPUs simply doesn't
work, e.g. immediately crashes on VMRUN.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251001001529.1119031-2-jmattson@google.com
[sean: add context about partial virtualization, use PASSTHROUGH_F]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

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Jim Mattson 2025-09-30 17:14:07 -07:00 • committed by Sean Christopherson

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arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h

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arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c

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