Patch "Revert "KVM: nested VMX: disable perf cpuid reporting"" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

Revert "KVM: nested VMX: disable perf cpuid reporting"

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
revert-kvm-nested-vmx-disable-perf-cpuid-reporting.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Jim Mattson <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:34:50 -0800
Subject: Revert "KVM: nested VMX: disable perf cpuid reporting"
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From: Jim Mattson <[email protected]>

commit 0b4c208d443ba2af82b4c70f99ca8df31e9a0020 upstream.

This reverts commit bc6134942dbbf31c25e9bd7c876be5da81c9e1ce.

A CPUID instruction executed in VMX non-root mode always causes a VM-exit, regardless of the leaf being queried.

[The issue solved by bc6134942dbb has been resolved with ff651cb613b4
("KVM: nVMX: Add nested msr load/restore algorithm").]

---
 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c |    6 ------
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c   |    2 --
 2 files changed, 8 deletions(-)

@@ -787,12 +787,6 @@ void kvm_cpuid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u3
 	if (!best)
 		best = check_cpuid_limit(vcpu, function, index);
 
-	/*
-	 * Perfmon not yet supported for L2 guest.
-	 */
-	if (is_guest_mode(vcpu) && function == 0xa)
-		best = NULL;
-
 	if (best) {
 		*eax = best->eax;
 		*ebx = best->ebx;

@@ -7047,8 +7047,6 @@ static bool nested_vmx_exit_handled(stru
 	case EXIT_REASON_TASK_SWITCH:
 		return 1;
 	case EXIT_REASON_CPUID:
-		if (kvm_register_read(vcpu, VCPU_REGS_RAX) == 0xa)
-			return 0;
 		return 1;
 	case EXIT_REASON_HLT:
 		return nested_cpu_has(vmcs12, CPU_BASED_HLT_EXITING);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.18/revert-kvm-nested-vmx-disable-perf-cpuid-reporting.patch