Commit 6373445e authored by Liu Jingqi's avatar Liu Jingqi Committed by Yang Yingliang
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KVM: x86: expose MOVDIRI CPU feature into VM.

mainline inclusion
from mainline-v5.1-rc1
commit 74f2370b
category: feature
bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I4MKP4
CVE: NA

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MOVDIRI moves doubleword or quadword from register to memory through
direct store which is implemented by using write combining (WC) for
writing data directly into memory without caching the data.

Availability of the MOVDIRI instruction is indicated by the presence of
the CPUID feature flag MOVDIRI(CPUID.0x07.0x0:ECX[bit 27]).

This patch exposes the movdiri feature to the guest.

The release document ref below link:
https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/c5/15/\


architecture-instruction-set-extensions-programming-reference.pdf

Signed-off-by: default avatarLiu Jingqi <jingqi.liu@intel.com>
Cc: Xu Tao <tao3.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jackie Liu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn> #openEuler_contributor
Signed-off-by: default avatarLaibin Qiu <qiulaibin@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarZenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
parent b6a22c55
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