Commit 9645bb56 authored Mar 31, 2009 by Avi Kivity

KVM: MMU: Use different shadows when EFER.NXE changes



A pte that is shadowed when the guest EFER.NXE=1 is not valid when
EFER.NXE=0; if bit 63 is set, the pte should cause a fault, and since the
shadow EFER always has NX enabled, this won't happen.

Fix by using a different shadow page table for different EFER.NXE bits.  This
allows vcpus to run correctly with different values of EFER.NXE, and for
transitions on this bit to be handled correctly without requiring a full
flush.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

parent 82725b20

arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h

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		@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ union kvm_mmu_page_role {
		unsigned access:3;
		unsigned invalid:1;
		unsigned cr4_pge:1;
		unsigned nxe:1;
		};
		};

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

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		@@ -523,6 +523,9 @@ static void set_efer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 efer)
		efer \|= vcpu->arch.shadow_efer & EFER_LMA;

		vcpu->arch.shadow_efer = efer;

		vcpu->arch.mmu.base_role.nxe = (efer & EFER_NX) && !tdp_enabled;
		kvm_mmu_reset_context(vcpu);
		}

		void kvm_enable_efer_bits(u64 mask)

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