On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 9:47 AM Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 6:06 AM Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Note: Although these VMCS fields are 64-bit, they don't have high fields. > > This statement directly contradicts the SDM, volume 3, appendix B.2: > > "A value of 1 in bits 14:13 of an encoding indicates a 64-bit field. > There are 64-bit fields only for controls and for guest state. As > noted in Section 24.11.2, every 64-bit field has two encodings, which > differ on bit 0, the access type. Thus, each such field has an even > encoding for full access and an odd encoding for high access." Ah! They're not actually 64-bit fields. If you look at the encodings (0x68XX and 0x6cxx), they're natural-width fields! Natural-width fields don't have a high component.