Re: [PATCH 2/4] KVM: nVMX: Check GUEST_DR7 on vmentry of nested guests

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On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 2:25 PM Krish Sadhukhan
<krish.sadhukhan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> According to section "Checks on Guest Control Registers, Debug Registers, and
> and MSRs" in Intel SDM vol 3C, the following checks are performed on vmentry
> of nested guests:
>
>     If the "load debug controls" VM-entry control is 1, bits 63:32 in the DR7
>     field must be 0.

Can't we just let the hardware check guest DR7? This results in
"VM-entry failure due to invalid guest state," right? And we just
reflect that to L1?



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