Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] target-i386: add memory protection-key support

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:20:14AM +0800, Huaitong Han wrote:
> Changes in v3:
> *Fix cpuid_7_0_ecx_feature_name error.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> *Fix memcpy error for xsave state.
> *Fix TCG_7_0_ECX_FEATURES to 0.
> *Make subjects more readable.
> 
> The protection-key feature provides an additional mechanism by which IA-32e
> paging controls access to usermode addresses.
> 
> Hardware support for protection keys for user pages is enumerated with CPUID
> feature flag CPUID.7.0.ECX[3]:PKU. Software support is CPUID.7.0.ECX[4]:OSPKE
> with the setting of CR4.PKE(bit 22).
> 
> The PKRU register is XSAVE-managed state CPUID.D.0.EAX[9], the size of XSAVE
> state component for PKRU is 8 bytes, the offset is 0xa80.
> 
> The specification of Protection Keys can be found at SDM (4.6.2, volume 3)
> http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/manuals/64-ia-32-architectures-software-developer-manual-325462.pdf.

Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>

The patches were squashed together and queued in x86-next branch
for 2.6.

> 
> Huaitong Han (3):
>   target-i386: add pkeys support for cpuid handling
>   target-i386: add pkeys support for xsave state handling
>   target-i386: add pkeys support for vm migration
> 
>  target-i386/cpu.c     | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  target-i386/cpu.h     |  7 +++++++
>  target-i386/kvm.c     |  3 +++
>  target-i386/machine.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.4.3
> 
> 

-- 
Eduardo