Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] x86/cpufeatures: Add CPUID feature bit for the Bus Lock Threshold

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On Wed, Apr 09, 2025, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 11:30:56AM +0530, Manali Shukla wrote:
> > Do you have concern with the decision to expose the flag to /proc/cpuinfo?
> > 
> > The decision to expose the flag to /proc/cpuinfo was already discussed in 
> > [v1]. As suggested in the discussion [v1], I have added "buslock" to be
> > enumerated in /proc/cpuinfo.
> 
> If you mean this:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240709175145.9986-4-manali.shukla@xxxxxxx/T/#m1dc7e08c54dd91d53a6bc5b1ed0a6721b356a756
> 
> I don't see any conclusion there.
> 
> I see Sean wanting to export information out of KVM to say what it supports
> without adding user ABI and I don't know how far that has come

Not very far :-(

> but what you're
> doing here ain't it.
> 
> Just do:
> 
> #define X86_FEATURE_BUS_LOCK_THRESHOLD    (15*32+29) /* Bus lock threshold */
> 
> and then later KVM can export this however it prefers.

+1




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