Avi Kivity wrote: > > Why do we care? The guest can only harm itself, and if it wants to > disable interrupts, it would be a lot easier for it to run a plain 'cli'. > > I guess it would be a problem if we emulated 'mov ss' for ordinary > userspace or vm86 mode, but we don't. > Well, the answer is that mov ss is an unprivileged instruction. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
