linux-kernel - [PATCH 28/30] KVM: is_long_mode() should check for EFER.LMA

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Date:	Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:41:47 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 28/30] KVM: is_long_mode() should check for EFER.LMA

From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@...ranet.com>

is_long_mode currently checks the LongModeEnable bit in
EFER instead of the LongModeActive bit. This is wrong, but
we survived this till now since it wasn't triggered. This
breaks guests that go from long mode to compatibility mode.

This is noticed on a solaris guest and fixes bug #1842160

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@...ranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
index 258e5d5..eaab214 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static inline int kvm_mmu_reload(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 static inline int is_long_mode(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-	return vcpu->arch.shadow_efer & EFER_LME;
+	return vcpu->arch.shadow_efer & EFER_LMA;
 #else
 	return 0;
 #endif
-- 
1.6.0.6

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