On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 03:11:36PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Joerg Roedel wrote:
> >This patch makes the EFER register accessible on a 32bit KVM host. This is
> >necessary to boot 32 bit PAE guests under SVM.
> >
> >
>
>
> > static void set_efer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 efer)
> > {
> > if (efer & EFER_RESERVED_BITS) {
> >@@ -432,12 +430,19 @@ static void set_efer(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 efer)
> > return;
> > }
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> > if (is_paging(vcpu)
> > && (vcpu->arch.shadow_efer & EFER_LME) != (efer & EFER_LME)) {
> > printk(KERN_DEBUG "set_efer: #GP, change LME while paging\n");
> > kvm_inject_gp(vcpu, 0);
> > return;
> > }
> >+#else
> >+ if (efer & EFER_LME) {
> >+ printk(KERN_DEBUG "set_efer: #GP, enable longmode on 32bit
> >host\n");
> >+ kvm_inject_gp(vcpu, 0);
> >+ }
> >+#endif
> >
>
> We should, in addition, check the various EFER bits against host cpu
> capabilities (with cpu_has()). This
> will ensure that any attempt to set an invalid bit will fail. On Intel cpus
> that don't have EFER, there are
> no valid bits, and if we detect that in vmx_set_efer, we can make it work on
> hosts that don't have EFER.
Ok, makes sense. I will update the patches.
Joerg
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