Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> svm_vcpu_reset() was not properly resetting the contents of the guest-visible
> cr0 register, causing the following issue:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525699
>
> Without resetting cr0 properly, the vcpu was running the SIPI bootstrap 
> routine
> with paging enabled, making the vcpu get a pagefault exception while trying to
> run it.
>
> Instead of setting vmcb->save.cr0 directly, the new code just resets
> kvm->arch.cr0 and calls kvm_set_cr0(). The bits that were set/cleared on
> vmcb->save.cr0 (PG, WP, !CD, !NW) will be set properly by svm_set_cr0().
>
> kvm_set_cr0() is used instead of calling svm_set_cr0() directly to make sure
> kvm_mmu_reset_context() is called to reset the mmu to nonpaging mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com>
>   

Should this go into -stable?


Alex
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