Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] KVM: x86: Untag LAM bits when applicable

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> Emm, I take a look at the callers, looks like they're segment registers
> and MSRs. Per spec (ISE 10.4): processors that support LAM continue to
> require the addresses written to control registers or MSRs be legacy
> canonical. So, like the handling on your last commented point on this
> patch, such situation needs no changes, i.e. legacy canonical still
> applied.
> 
Well, it's not about the control register or MSR emulation. It is about
the instruction decoder, which may encounter an instruction with a memory
operand with LAM bits occupied. 

B.R.
Yu



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