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Sean Christopherson c7554efc83 KVM: nVMX: Copy PDPTRs to/from vmcs12 only when necessary
Per Intel's SDM:

  ... the logical processor uses PAE paging if CR0.PG=1, CR4.PAE=1 and
  IA32_EFER.LME=0.  A VM entry to a guest that uses PAE paging loads the
  PDPTEs into internal, non-architectural registers based on the setting
  of the "enable EPT" VM-execution control.

and:

  [GUEST_PDPTR] values are saved into the four PDPTE fields as follows:

    - If the "enable EPT" VM-execution control is 0 or the logical
      processor was not using PAE paging at the time of the VM exit,
      the values saved are undefined.

In other words, if EPT is disabled or the guest isn't using PAE paging,
then the PDPTRS aren't consumed by hardware on VM-Entry and are loaded
with junk on VM-Exit.  From a nesting perspective, all of the above hold
true, i.e. KVM can effectively ignore the VMCS PDPTRs.  E.g. KVM already
loads the PDPTRs from memory when nested EPT is disabled (see
nested_vmx_load_cr3()).

Because KVM intercepts setting CR4.PAE, there is no danger of consuming
a stale value or crushing L1's VMWRITEs regardless of whether L1
intercepts CR4.PAE. The vmcs12's values are unchanged up until the
VM-Exit where L2 sets CR4.PAE, i.e. L0 will see the new PAE state on the
subsequent VM-Entry and propagate the PDPTRs from vmcs12 to vmcs02.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2019-06-18 11:47:39 +02:00
arch KVM: nVMX: Copy PDPTRs to/from vmcs12 only when necessary 2019-06-18 11:47:39 +02:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.