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KVM: SVM: Add support for SVM instruction address check change
authorWei Huang <[email protected]>
Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:18:30 +0000 (03:18 -0500)
committerPaolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Thu, 4 Feb 2021 10:27:28 +0000 (05:27 -0500)
commit3b9c723ed7cfa4e1eef338afaa57e94be2a60d9c
tree431e6962e29bca958317569f7b820c95fed7d3f2
parent82a11e9c6fa2b50a7fff542fb782359dc1eab6bf
KVM: SVM: Add support for SVM instruction address check change

New AMD CPUs have a change that checks #VMEXIT intercept on special SVM
instructions before checking their EAX against reserved memory region.
This change is indicated by CPUID_0x8000000A_EDX[28]. If it is 1, #VMEXIT
is triggered before #GP. KVM doesn't need to intercept and emulate #GP
faults as #GP is supposed to be triggered.

Co-developed-by: Bandan Das <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bandan Das <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <20210126081831[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c
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