2017-08-15 21:58-0400, Lan Tianyu: > These CR3 VMEXITs was introduced for platform without "unrestricted guest" > support. This is to set ept identity table to guest CR3 in guest real > mode because these platforms don't support ept real mode(CR0.PE and CR0.PG > must be set to 1). But these VMEXITs is redundant for platforms with > "unrestricted guest" support. > > Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu....@intel.com> > --- > arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 22 +++++++++++++--------- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c > @@ -4311,7 +4313,9 @@ static void vmx_set_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned > long cr3) > } > > vmx_flush_tlb(vcpu); > - vmcs_writel(GUEST_CR3, guest_cr3); > + > + if (!enable_unrestricted_guest || !enable_ept) > + vmcs_writel(GUEST_CR3, guest_cr3);
This looks wrong -- it would prevent update GUEST_CR3 outside of non-root mode with enable_unrestricted_guest.
