On 22/03/2018 12:04, Andrew Cooper wrote: > We've got a Force Emulation Prefix (ud2a; .ascii "xen") for doing > magic. Originally, this was used for PV guests to explicitly request an > emulated CPUID, but I extended it to HVM guests for "emulate the next > instruction", after we had some guest user => guest kernel privilege > escalations because of incorrect emulation. Wanpeng, why don't you add it behind a new kvm module parameter? :) Paolo