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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM MMU: check reserved bits only if CR4.PSE=1 or CR4.PAE=1
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:15:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9F2204.7050302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9F1F47.2040700@cn.fujitsu.com>

On 03/16/2010 08:03 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>
>> I think the only change is that is !is_pse(vcpu) we ignore bit 7?
>>      
> If the vcpu is in PT32E_ROOT_LEVEL/PT64_ROOT_LEVEL mode, CR4.PAE
> is aways enabled, so what we need do is ignore bit7 if !is_pse(vcpu)
> under PT32_ROOT_LEVEL mode, right?
>    

I think PAE will fault if bit7 is set and !is_pse(vcpu), but not sure.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-16  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-16 18:21 [PATCH] KVM MMU: check reserved bits only if CR4.PSE=1 or CR4.PAE=1 Xiao Guangrong
2010-03-16  5:31 ` Avi Kivity
2010-03-16  6:03   ` Xiao Guangrong
2010-03-16  6:15     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-03-16  6:51       ` Xiao Guangrong

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