Re: [PATCH 0/6] KVM: VMX: improve usage of unrestricted guest

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2018-03-06 4:04 GMT+08:00 Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>:
> This series eliminates usage of legacy code that is obsolete when
> unrestricted guest is enabled.
>
> Because unrestricted guest (Westmere) was introduced one generation
> later than EPT (Nehalem), KVM's initial support for EPT by necessity
> retained/introduced soon-to-be-legacy code for handling a guest with
> EPT enabled and CR0.PG/PE==0.  Some of this now-legacy code/behavior
> wasn't correctly deprecated when KVM added support for unrestricted
> guest, e.g. KVM still creates and loads identity mapped IA32 page
> tables when the guest disables paging, even though CR0.PG is cleared
> in hardware.

Thanks for the patchset, in addition, I think A20 emulation is still
missing for vm8086.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li



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