i386/kvm: Expose ARCH_CAP_FB_CLEAR when invulnerable to MDS
Newer Intel hardware (Sapphire Rapids and higher) sets multiple MDS
immunity bits in MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES but lacks the hardware-level
MSR_ARCH_CAP_FB_CLEAR (bit 17):
ARCH_CAP_MDS_NO
ARCH_CAP_TAA_NO
ARCH_CAP_PSDP_NO
ARCH_CAP_FBSDP_NO
ARCH_CAP_SBDR_SSDP_NO
This prevents VMs with fb-clear=on from migrating from older hardware
(Cascade Lake, Ice Lake) to newer hardware, limiting live migration
capabilities. Note fb-clear was first introduced in v8.1.0 [1].
Expose MSR_ARCH_CAP_FB_CLEAR for MDS-invulnerable systems to enable
seamless migration between hardware generations.
Note: There is no impact when a guest migrates to newer hardware as
the existing bit combinations already mark the host as MMIO-immune and
disable FB_CLEAR operations in the kernel (see Linux's
arch_cap_mmio_immune() and vmx_update_fb_clear_dis()). See kernel side
discussion for [2] for additional context.
[1]
22e1094ca82 ("target/i386: add support for FB_CLEAR feature")
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/kvm/patch/
20250401044931.793203-1-jon@nutanix.com/
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Kohler <jon@nutanix.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251008202557.4141285-1-jon@nutanix.com
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>