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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: VMX: Allow guest to set DEBUGCTL.RTM_DEBUG if RTM is" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.4.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 17ec2f965344ee3fd6620bef7ef68792f4ac3af0
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2025081206-eclipse-preview-8baf@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.4.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 17ec2f965344ee3fd6620bef7ef68792f4ac3af0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:20:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Allow guest to set DEBUGCTL.RTM_DEBUG if RTM is
supported

Let the guest set DEBUGCTL.RTM_DEBUG if RTM is supported according to the guest CPUID model, as debug support is supposed to be available if RTM is supported, and there are no known downsides to letting the guest debug RTM aborts.

Note, there are no known bug reports related to RTM_DEBUG, the primary motivation is to reduce the probability of breaking existing guests when a future change adds a missing consistency check on vmcs12.GUEST_DEBUGCTL (KVM currently lets L2 run with whatever hardware supports; whoops).

Note #2, KVM already emulates DR6.RTM, and doesn't restrict access to DR7.RTM.

Fixes 83c529151ab0 ("KVM: x86: expose Intel cpu new features (HLE, RTM) to guest")
arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h +1 -0
index b7dded3c8113..fa878b136eba 100644
@@ -419,6 +419,7 @@
 #define DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_PERFMON_ON_PMI	(1UL << 12)
 #define DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_IN_SMM_BIT	14
 #define DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_IN_SMM	(1UL << DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_IN_SMM_BIT)
+#define DEBUGCTLMSR_RTM_DEBUG		BIT(15)
 
 #define MSR_PEBS_FRONTEND		0x000003f7
 
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +4 -0
index 4ee6cc796855..311f6fa53b67 100644
@@ -2186,6 +2186,10 @@ static u64 vmx_get_supported_debugctl(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool host_initiated
 	    (host_initiated || intel_pmu_lbr_is_enabled(vcpu)))
 		debugctl |= DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR | DEBUGCTLMSR_FREEZE_LBRS_ON_PMI;
 
+	if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RTM) &&
+	    (host_initiated || guest_cpu_cap_has(vcpu, X86_FEATURE_RTM)))
+		debugctl |= DEBUGCTLMSR_RTM_DEBUG;
+
 	return debugctl;
 }