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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2019-11-18 12:23:01 -0500
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2019-11-21 10:01:02 +0100
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parentKVM: vmx: implement MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL disable RTM functionality (diff)
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KVM: vmx: use MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL to hard-disable TSX on guest that lack it
If X86_FEATURE_RTM is disabled, the guest should not be able to access MSR_IA32_TSX_CTRL. We can therefore use it in KVM to force all transactions from the guest to abort. Tested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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