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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2019-10-27 16:23:23 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-11-16 10:29:53 +0100
commit1b08d2ab698ddf78833717908e2a41336ab9c6ef (patch)
tree4630021500be77301994f38cdad4050349c6a78d /Documentation/ABI
parent52644d80850a3fe965ee964e903acef7be61a62c (diff)
KVM: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active
commit 9167ab79936206118cc60e47dcb926c3489f3bd5 upstream. VMX already does so if the host has SMEP, in order to support the combination of CR0.WP=1 and CR4.SMEP=1. However, it is perfectly safe to always do so, and in fact VMX already ends up running with EFER.NXE=1 on old processors that lack the "load EFER" controls, because it may help avoiding a slow MSR write. Removing all the conditionals simplifies the code. SVM does not have similar code, but it should since recent AMD processors do support SMEP. So this patch also makes the code for the two vendors more similar while fixing NPT=0, CR0.WP=1 and CR4.SMEP=1 on AMD processors. Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> [bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust filename] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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