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[v4,3/5] kvm: vmx: Don't set hardware IA32_CSTAR MSR on VM-entry

Message ID 20181205232902.1431-4-jmattson@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Various guest_msrs cleanups | expand

Commit Message

Jim Mattson Dec. 5, 2018, 11:29 p.m. UTC 
SYSCALL raises #UD in compatibility mode on Intel CPUs, so it's
pointless to load the guest's IA32_CSTAR value into the hardware MSR.

IA32_CSTAR still provides 48 bits of storage on Intel CPUs that have
CPUID.80000001:EDX.LM[bit 29] set, so we cannot remove it from the
vmx_msr_index[] array.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>
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 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index b58c3952c5dfb..12430486e911e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -3434,9 +3434,6 @@  static void setup_msrs(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
 		if (index >= 0)
 			move_msr_up(vmx, index, save_nmsrs++);
 		index = __find_msr_index(vmx, MSR_LSTAR);
-		if (index >= 0)
-			move_msr_up(vmx, index, save_nmsrs++);
-		index = __find_msr_index(vmx, MSR_CSTAR);
 		if (index >= 0)
 			move_msr_up(vmx, index, save_nmsrs++);
 		/*