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Commit 1b08d2ab authored by Paolo Bonzini's avatar Paolo Bonzini Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 52644d80
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