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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 06/14] Nested Virtualization: CRn & paged real mo

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 06/14] Nested Virtualization: CRn & paged real mode
From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:12:07 +0200
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On Monday 09 August 2010 14:40:12 Tim Deegan wrote:
> > Allow paged real mode during vmrun emulation.
> > Emulate cr0 and cr4 when guest does not intercept them.
>
> I understand the paged-real-mode case, but why do you also allow CR0.CD
> and CR0.NW for nested VMs?

Oh, I haven't considered about those bits. You are right, they should not be
allowed for l2 guests. Thanks for bringing this up. Fixed in my local tree.

Christoph


>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim.
>
> > diff -r 917f9eb07fc3 -r b1a356e5658d xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
> > --- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
> > +++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/hvm.c
> > @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
> >  #include <asm/hvm/support.h>
> >  #include <asm/hvm/cacheattr.h>
> >  #include <asm/hvm/trace.h>
> > +#include <asm/hvm/nestedhvm.h>
> >  #include <asm/mtrr.h>
> >  #include <asm/apic.h>
> >  #include <public/sched.h>
> > @@ -1105,7 +1106,8 @@ int hvm_set_cr0(unsigned long value)
> >      /* ET is reserved and should be always be 1. */
> >      value |= X86_CR0_ET;
> >
> > -    if ( (value & (X86_CR0_PE | X86_CR0_PG)) == X86_CR0_PG )
> > +    if ( !nestedhvm_vmentry_emulate(v) &&
> > +         (value & (X86_CR0_PE | X86_CR0_PG)) == X86_CR0_PG )
> >          goto gpf;
> >
> >      if ( (value & X86_CR0_PG) && !(old_value & X86_CR0_PG) )
> > @@ -1159,7 +1161,7 @@ int hvm_set_cr0(unsigned long value)
> >          }
> >      }
> >
> > -    if ( has_arch_mmios(v->domain) )
> > +    if ( !nestedhvm_vmentry_emulate(v) && has_arch_mmios(v->domain) )
> >      {
> >          if ( (value & X86_CR0_CD) && !(value & X86_CR0_NW) )
> >          {
>
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