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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 24/29] xen/x86: allow HVM guests to use
 hypercalls to bring up vCPUs
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 16:16:30 +0100
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On 21/09/15 16:44, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> +    uint32_t cr0;
>> +    uint32_t cr3;
>> +    uint32_t cr4;
>> +    uint64_t efer;
> What again was the point of having EFER here?
>

EFER.NX must match what the BSP chose to set up in the pagetables 
pointed to in %cr3, or a triple fault will occur.

~Andrew