> > Hi Babu,
> >
> > I tried to test below patch for AMD EPYC Rome CPU and I got below error [1]:
> >
> > Also, I noticed SSBD CPU flag for guest was still available even without
> > this
> > patch, I noticed that for the guest, AMD_SSBD not got set.
> >
> > Guest:
> > 0x80000008 0x00: eax=0x00003028 ebx=0x00009205 ecx=0x00002003
> > edx=0x00000000
> >
> > [1]
> > [ 0.008000] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x48 (tried to
> > write 0x0000000000000000) at rIP: 0xffffffff9245c9e4
> > (native_write_msr+0x4/0x20)
> > [ 0.008000] [<ffffffff9243a6c5>] ? x86_spec_ctrl_setup_ap+0x35/0x50
> > [ 0.008000] [<ffffffff92439423>] ? identify_secondary_cpu+0x53/0x80
> > [ 0.008000] [<ffffffff9244adfa>] ? start_secondary+0x6a/0x1b0
> >
> > 0.011970] unchecked MSR access error: RDMSR from 0x48 at rIP:
> > 0xffffffff9245c772 (native_read_msr+0x2/0x40)
>
> I did not see any problem with these patches.
> My guest setup.
> # lscpu |grep -o ssbd
> ssbd
> [root@rome-vm ~]# uname -r
> 4.18.0-147.el8.x86_64
> [root@rome-vm ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.1 (Ootpa)
> # wrmsr 0x48 7
> [root@rome-vm ~]# rdmsr 0x48
> 7
>
>
> My host os.
> # uname -r
> 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64
> [root@rome images]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.2 Beta (Ootpa)
>
> Also, I only see ssbd feature when add this patch(EPYC-Rome-v2).
> Otherwise, I don’t see ssbd feature.
Thanks for checking!
Can you also see the ibrs feature inside guest with this patch?
Thanks,
Pankaj
>
> Thanks
> Babu
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Pankaj
> >
> > > > It is normally added as v2 for compatibility. Like this.
> > >
> > > o.k. Thanks!
> > > I will test this tomorrow.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c index
> > > > 24db7ed892..f721d0db78 100644
> > > > --- a/target/i386/cpu.c
> > > > +++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
> > > > @@ -4179,6 +4179,20 @@ static X86CPUDefinition builtin_x86_defs[] = {
> > > > .xlevel = 0x8000001E,
> > > > .model_id = "AMD EPYC-Rome Processor",
> > > > .cache_info = &epyc_rome_cache_info,
> > > > + .versions = (X86CPUVersionDefinition[]) {
> > > > + { .version = 1 },
> > > > + {
> > > > + .version = 2,
> > > > + .props = (PropValue[]) {
> > > > + { "ibrs", "on" },
> > > > + { "amd-ssbd", "on" },
> > > > + { "model-id",
> > > > + "AMD EPYC-Rome Processor" },
> > > > + { /* end of list */ }
> > > > + }
> > > > + },
> > > > + { /* end of list */ }
> > > > + }
> > > > },
> > > > {
> > > > .name = "EPYC-Milan",
