linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: correctly initialize the CS base on reset

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Message-ID: <20130320203534.GA18530@amt.cnet>
Date:	Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:35:34 -0300
From:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: correctly initialize the CS base on reset

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:30:26PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The CS base was initialized to 0 on VMX (wrong, but usually overridden
> by userspace before starting) or 0xf0000 on SVM.  The correct value is
> 0xffff0000, and VMX is able to emulate it now, so use it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 8 +-------
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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