linux-kernel - [PATCH 13/13] KVM: x86: Allow userspace to disable the kernel's emulator

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Date:   Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:39:59 -0800
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 13/13] KVM: x86: Allow userspace to disable the kernel's emulator

Expose the emulator control to userspace via a module param.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 312dd5f8172c..4e5a27874656 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(enable_vmware_backdoor);
 static bool __read_mostly force_emulation_prefix = false;
 module_param(force_emulation_prefix, bool, S_IRUGO);
 
-static const bool enable_emulator = true;
+static bool __read_mostly enable_emulator = true;
+module_param_named(emulator, enable_emulator, bool, 0440);
 
 int __read_mostly pi_inject_timer = -1;
 module_param(pi_inject_timer, bint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
-- 
2.24.0