On 20/11/19 17:49, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> One of the mitigation methods for TAA[1] is to disable TSX
> support on the host system.  Linux added a mechanism to disable
> TSX globally through the kernel command line, and many Linux
> distributions now default to tsx=off.  This makes existing CPU
> models that have HLE and RTM enabled not usable anymore.
> 
> Add new versions of all CPU models that have the HLE and RTM
> features enabled, that can be used when TSX is disabled in the
> host system.

What is the effect of this when using "-cpu CascadeLake-Server" and
upgrading QEMU?  Would it automatically switch to the new version?  If
so, would it be better to include a duplicate of the models (and if so,
that would conflict with my VMX features patch, which is also for 4.2).

Paolo


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