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| author |   Dongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com> | 2013-02-04 11:50:43 +0800 |
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| committer |   Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> | 2013-02-05 23:28:07 -0200 |
| commit | c08800a56cb8622bb61577abb4a120c6fdc4b9be (patch) | |
| tree | c9195953c1e901dfa44238facd4fc1402d1b9fc8 /tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py | |
| parent | KVM: Remove duplicate text in api.txt (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-c08800a56cb8622bb61577abb4a120c6fdc4b9be.tar.xz linux-dev-c08800a56cb8622bb61577abb4a120c6fdc4b9be.zip | |
KVM: VMX: disable SMEP feature when guest is in non-paging mode
SMEP is disabled if CPU is in non-paging mode in hardware.
However KVM always uses paging mode to emulate guest non-paging
mode with TDP. To emulate this behavior, SMEP needs to be manually
disabled when guest switches to non-paging mode.
We met an issue that, SMP Linux guest with recent kernel (enable
SMEP support, for example, 3.5.3) would crash with triple fault if
setting unrestricted_guest=0. This is because KVM uses an identity
mapping page table to emulate the non-paging mode, where the page
table is set with USER flag. If SMEP is still enabled in this case,
guest will meet unhandlable page fault and then crash.
Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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