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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] Enable CPU SMEP feature for QEMU-KVM
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:20:28 -0300
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On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:17:42PM +0800, Yang, Wei Y wrote:
> This patchset enables a new CPU feature SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution
> Protection) in QEMU-KVM. SMEP prevents kernel from executing code in application.
> Updated Intel SDM describes this CPU feature. The document will be published soon.
> 
> SMEP is identified by CPUID leaf 7 EBX[7], which is 0 before. Get the right value by query KVM kernel module, so that guest can get SMEP through CPUID.
> 
> Changes since v5: no changes.
> Changes since v4: no changes.
> Changes since v3: no changes.
> Changes since v2: no changes.
> 
>  Signed-off-by: Yang, Wei <wei.y.yang@intel.com>
>  Singed-off-by: Shan, Haitao <haitao.shan@intel.com>
>  Singed-off-by: Li, Xin <xin.li@intel.com>

Applied to uq/master (zeroing registers in !kvm_enabled case),
and kernel patches, thanks.