KVM SnowRidge enable new ISAs

[Paul Lai]

Add KVM support for SnowRidge New Instructions: GFNI and CLDEMOT

GFNI: New instruction to compute an affine transformation in the Galois Field.
 The instruction is described here:
https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/c5/15/architecture-instruction-set-extensions-programming-reference.pdf

CLDEMOT: New instruction to hint to hardware that a cache line is likely to be shared. This is used to improve core-to-core communication.

Upstream Target is Linux 4.20
Target Release: 19.04

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi,
title says KVM, but the bug is only against xen so far.

Will this need an "qemu (ubuntu)" and/or "linux (ubuntu)" task as well?

- kernel 4.20 is listed so I assume the latter.
- Qemu is not mentioned yet

[Paul Lai (pclai)]

This is actually a KVM/qemu feature. "Xen" part was autofilled.

qemu 3.0 commit 0da0fb062 x86/cpu: Enable CLDEMOTE(Demote Cache Line) cpu feature

linux/kvm commit: 0ea3286e2d KVM: x86: Expose CLDEMOTE CPU feature to guest VM

[Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. While running an Ubuntu kernel (not a mainline or third-party kernel) please enter the following command in a terminal window:

apport-collect 1782205

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Thanks for clarification Paul.
Being Kernel+Qemu changes I added bug tasks for these.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

no need for the kernel bot, set to confirmed

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package qemu - 1:3.1+dfsg-2ubuntu1

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qemu (1:3.1+dfsg-2ubuntu1) disco; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian testing, Among many other things this fixes LP Bugs:
    LP: #1806104 - fix misleading page size error on ppc64el
    LP: #1782205 - SnowRidge enabled new ISAs
    LP: #1786956 - upgrade to qemu >= 3.0
    LP: #1809083 - Backward migration to Xenial on ppc64el
    LP: #1803315 - s390x Huge page enablement
    LP: #1657409 - enable virglrenderer
    Remaining Changes:
    - qemu-kvm to systemd unit
      - d/qemu-kvm-init: script for QEMU KVM preparation modules, ksm,
        hugepages and architecture specifics
      - d/qemu-kvm.service: systemd unit to call qemu-kvm-init
      - d/qemu-system-common.install: install systemd unit and helper script
      - d/qemu-system-common.maintscript: clean old sysv and upstart scripts
      - d/qemu-system-common.qemu-kvm.default: defaults for
        /etc/default/qemu-kvm
      - d/rules: install /etc/default/qemu-kvm
    - Enable nesting by default
      - d/qemu-system-x86.modprobe: set nested=1 module option on intel.
        (is default on amd)
      - d/qemu-system-x86.postinst: re-load kvm_intel.ko if it was loaded
        without nested=1
      - d/p/ubuntu/expose-vmx_qemu64cpu.patch: expose nested kvm by default
        in qemu64 cpu type.
      - d/p/ubuntu/enable-svm-by-default.patch: Enable nested svm by default
        in qemu64 on amd
      - d/qemu-system-x86.README.Debian: document intention of nested being
        default is comfort, not full support
    - Distribution specific machine type (LP: 1304107 1621042 1776189 1761372)
      - d/p/ubuntu/define-ubuntu-machine-types.patch: define distro machine
        types
      - d/qemu-system-x86.NEWS Info on fixed machine type defintions
        for host-phys-bits=true (LP: 1776189)
      - add an info about -hpb machine type in debian/qemu-system-x86.NEWS
      - d/p/ubuntu/lp-1761372-*: provide pseries-bionic-2.11-sxxm type as
        convenience with all meltdown/spectre workarounds enabled by default.
        (LP: 1761372).
    - improved dependencies
      - Make qemu-system-common depend on qemu-block-extra
      - Make qemu-utils depend on qemu-block-extra
      - let qemu-utils recommend sharutils
    - s390x support
      - Create qemu-system-s390x package
      - Enable numa support for s390x
    - arch aware kvm wrappers
    - d/control: update VCS links (updated to match latest Ubuntu)
    - qemu-guest-agent: freeze-hook fixes (LP: 1484990)
      - d/qemu-guest-agent.install: provide /etc/qemu/fsfreeze-hook
      - d/qemu-guest-agent.dirs: provide /etc/qemu/fsfreeze-hook.d
    - d/control-in: enable RDMA support in qemu (LP: 1692476)
        - enable RDMA config option
        - add libibumad-dev build-dep
    - tolerate ipxe size change on migrations to >=18.04 (LP: 1713490)
      - d/p/ubuntu/pre-bionic-256k-ipxe-efi-roms.patch: old machine types
        reference 256k path
      - d/control-in: depend on ipxe-qemu-256k-compat-efi-roms to be able to
        handle incoming migrations from former releases.
    - d/control-in: Disable capstone disassembler library support (universe...