linux/arch/x86
Nadav Har'El 8049d651e8 nEPT: Support LOAD_IA32_EFER entry/exit controls for L1
Recent KVM, since http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kvm/2010/5/2/6261577
switch the EFER MSR when EPT is used and the host and guest have different
NX bits. So if we add support for nested EPT (L1 guest using EPT to run L2)
and want to be able to run recent KVM as L1, we need to allow L1 to use this
EFER switching feature.

To do this EFER switching, KVM uses VM_ENTRY/EXIT_LOAD_IA32_EFER if available,
and if it isn't, it uses the generic VM_ENTRY/EXIT_MSR_LOAD. This patch adds
support for the former (the latter is still unsupported).

Nested entry and exit emulation (prepare_vmcs_02 and load_vmcs12_host_state,
respectively) already handled VM_ENTRY/EXIT_LOAD_IA32_EFER correctly. So all
that's left to do in this patch is to properly advertise this feature to L1.

Note that vmcs12's VM_ENTRY/EXIT_LOAD_IA32_EFER are emulated by L0, by using
vmx_set_efer (which itself sets one of several vmcs02 fields), so we always
support this feature, regardless of whether the host supports it.

Reviewed-by: Orit Wasserman <owasserm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xinhao Xu <xinhao.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2013-08-07 15:57:34 +02:00
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boot arm: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel 2013-07-09 10:33:30 -07:00
configs x86, platform, kvm, kconfig: Turn existing .config's into KVM-capable configs 2013-05-28 12:11:32 +02:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2013-07-05 12:12:33 -07:00
ia32 mm: remove free_area_cache 2013-07-10 18:11:34 -07:00
include KVM: x86: rename EMULATE_DO_MMIO 2013-07-29 09:01:14 +02:00
kernel remove sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations 2013-07-18 12:29:30 +02:00
kvm nEPT: Support LOAD_IA32_EFER entry/exit controls for L1 2013-08-07 15:57:34 +02:00
lguest Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-07-06 14:09:38 -07:00
lib Kconfig: consolidate CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS 2013-04-30 17:04:09 -07:00
math-emu
mm mm: remove free_area_cache 2013-07-10 18:11:34 -07:00
net x86: bpf_jit_comp: secure bpf jit against spraying attacks 2013-05-19 23:55:41 -07:00
oprofile
pci PCI changes for the v3.11 merge window: 2013-07-03 16:31:35 -07:00
platform Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-07-06 14:09:38 -07:00
power x86, gdt, hibernate: Store/load GDT for hibernate path. 2013-05-02 11:27:35 -07:00
realmode x86, relocs: Refactor the relocs tool to merge 32- and 64-bit ELF 2013-04-16 16:02:58 -07:00
syscalls unify compat fanotify_mark(2), switch to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE 2013-05-09 13:46:38 -04:00
tools x86, relocs: Move __vvar_page from S_ABS to S_REL 2013-06-12 15:14:57 -07:00
um make SYSCALL_DEFINE<n>-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect 2013-03-03 22:58:33 -05:00
vdso remove sched notifier for cross-cpu migrations 2013-07-18 12:29:30 +02:00
video
xen Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-07-06 14:09:38 -07:00
.gitignore
Kbuild
Kconfig arm: add support for LZ4-compressed kernel 2013-07-09 10:33:30 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu x86, 386 removal: Document Nx586 as a 386 and thus unsupported 2012-11-29 13:28:39 -08:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'kconfig-diet' from Dave Hansen 2013-07-04 11:25:51 -07:00
Makefile x86/platform: Add kvmconfig to the phony targets 2013-06-23 12:17:35 +02:00
Makefile.um
Makefile_32.cpu x86, 386 removal: Remove CONFIG_M386 from Kconfig 2012-11-29 13:23:01 -08:00