From c08800a56cb8622bb61577abb4a120c6fdc4b9be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dongxiao Xu Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 11:50:43 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: disable SMEP feature when guest is in non-paging mode SMEP is disabled if CPU is in non-paging mode in hardware. However KVM always uses paging mode to emulate guest non-paging mode with TDP. To emulate this behavior, SMEP needs to be manually disabled when guest switches to non-paging mode. We met an issue that, SMP Linux guest with recent kernel (enable SMEP support, for example, 3.5.3) would crash with triple fault if setting unrestricted_guest=0. This is because KVM uses an identity mapping page table to emulate the non-paging mode, where the page table is set with USER flag. If SMEP is still enabled in this case, guest will meet unhandlable page fault and then crash. Reviewed-by: Gleb Natapov Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Dongxiao Xu Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti --- Reading git-format-patch failed