glibc blacklists TSX on Haswell CPUs with model==60 and
stepping < 4. To make the Haswell CPU model more useful, make
those guests actually use TSX by changing CPU stepping to 4.
References:
* glibc commit 2702856bf45c82cf8e69f2064f5aa15c0ceb6359
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=2702856bf45c82cf8e69f2...
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com>
---
include/hw/i386/pc.h | 5 +++++
target/i386/cpu.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/hw/i386/pc.h b/include/hw/i386/pc.h
index ab303c7fee..f278b3ae89 100644
--- a/include/hw/i386/pc.h
+++ b/include/hw/i386/pc.h
@@ -389,6 +389,11 @@ bool e820_get_entry(int, uint32_t, uint64_t *, uint64_t *);
.driver = TYPE_X86_CPU,\
.property = "vmware-cpuid-freq",\
.value = "off",\
+ },\
+ {\
+ .driver = "Haswell-" TYPE_X86_CPU,\
+ .property = "stepping",\
+ .value = "1",\
},
#define PC_COMPAT_2_7 \
diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
index 30ba1bd06b..7aa762245a 100644
--- a/target/i386/cpu.c
+++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
@@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ static X86CPUDefinition builtin_x86_defs[] = {
.vendor = CPUID_VENDOR_INTEL,
.family = 6,
.model = 60,
- .stepping = 1,
+ .stepping = 4,
.features[FEAT_1_EDX] =
CPUID_VME | CPUID_SSE2 | CPUID_SSE | CPUID_FXSR | CPUID_MMX |
CPUID_CLFLUSH | CPUID_PSE36 | CPUID_PAT | CPUID_CMOV | CPUID_MCA |
--
2.11.0.259.g40922b1