[PATCH v8 10/21] KVM: x86: Add a helper to detect if FRED is enabled for a vCPU

Xin Li (Intel)
2025-10-14T01:10:37Z

[ Sean: removed the "kvm_" prefix from the function name ]
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Li (Intel) <xin@zytor.com>
Tested-by: Shan Kang <shan.kang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Xuelian Guo <xuelian.guo@intel.com>
---

Change in v5:
* Add TB from Xuelian Guo.
---
arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h b/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h
index 8ddb01191d6f..3c8dbb77d7d4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_cache_regs.h
@@ -205,6 +205,21 @@ static __always_inline bool kvm_is_cr4_bit_set(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
return !!kvm_read_cr4_bits(vcpu, cr4_bit);
}

+/*
+ * It's enough to check just CR4.FRED (X86_CR4_FRED) to tell if
+ * a vCPU is running with FRED enabled, because:
+ * 1) CR4.FRED can be set to 1 only _after_ IA32_EFER.LMA = 1.
+ * 2) To leave IA-32e mode, CR4.FRED must be cleared first.
+ */
+static inline bool is_fred_enabled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ return kvm_is_cr4_bit_set(vcpu, X86_CR4_FRED);
+#else
+ return false;
+#endif
+}
+
static inline ulong kvm_read_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
if (!kvm_register_is_available(vcpu, VCPU_EXREG_CR3))
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