target/i386: Introduce Icelake-Server-v7 to enable TSX

When start L2 guest with both L1/L2 using Icelake-Server-v3 or above,
QEMU reports below warning:

"warning: host doesn't support requested feature: MSR(10AH).taa-no [bit 8]"

Reason is QEMU Icelake-Server-v3 has TSX feature disabled but enables taa-no
bit. It's meaningless that TSX isn't supported but still claim TSX is secure.
So L1 KVM doesn't expose taa-no to L2 if TSX is unsupported, then starting L2
triggers the warning.

Fix it by introducing a new version Icelake-Server-v7 which has both TSX
and taa-no features. Then guest can use TSX securely when it see taa-no.

This matches the production Icelake which supports TSX and isn't susceptible
to TSX Async Abort (TAA) vulnerabilities, a.k.a, taa-no.

Ideally, TSX should have being enabled together with taa-no since v3, but for
compatibility, we'd better to add v7 to enable it.

Fixes: d965dc35592d ("target/i386: Add ARCH_CAPABILITIES related bits into Icelake-Server CPU model")
Tested-by: Xiangfei Ma <xiangfeix.ma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
Message-ID: <20240320093138.80267-2-zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
index eef3d08..3f4b121 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.c
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
@@ -3822,6 +3822,16 @@ static const X86CPUDefinition builtin_x86_defs[] = {
                     { /* end of list */ }
                 },
             },
+            {
+                .version = 7,
+                .note = "TSX, taa-no",
+                .props = (PropValue[]) {
+                    /* Restore TSX features removed by -v2 above */
+                    { "hle", "on" },
+                    { "rtm", "on" },
+                    { /* end of list */ }
+                },
+            },
             { /* end of list */ }
         }
     },