Re: [PATCH 1/4 v3][KVM nVMX]: Check "load IA32_PAT" VM-exit control on vmentry

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On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 3:27 PM Krish Sadhukhan
<krish.sadhukhan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> According to section "Checks on Host Control Registers and MSRs" in Intel
> SDM vol 3C, the following check is performed on vmentry:
>
>     If the "load IA32_PAT" VM-exit control is 1, the value of the field
>     for the IA32_PAT MSR must be one that could be written by WRMSR
>     without fault at CPL 0. Specifically, each of the 8 bytes in the
>     field must have one of the values 0 (UC), 1 (WC), 4 (WT), 5 (WP),
>     6 (WB), or 7 (UC-).
>
> Signed-off-by: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Karl Heubaum <karl.heubaum@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>



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