linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/4] KVM: SVM: Sync g_pat with guest-written PAT value

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Message-Id: <1436368710-5452-4-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed,  8 Jul 2015 17:18:29 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	guangrong.xiao@...ux.intel.com, jroedel@...e.de,
	alex.williamson@...hat.com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com,
	amirv@...lanox.com, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] KVM: SVM: Sync g_pat with guest-written PAT value

From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>

When hardware supports the g_pat VMCB field, we can use it for emulating
the PAT configuration that the guest configures by writing to the
corresponding MSR.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index 414ec25b673e..d36cfaf5a97a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -3350,6 +3350,16 @@ static int svm_set_msr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct msr_data *msr)
 	case MSR_VM_IGNNE:
 		vcpu_unimpl(vcpu, "unimplemented wrmsr: 0x%x data 0x%llx\n", ecx, data);
 		break;
+	case MSR_IA32_CR_PAT:
+		if (npt_enabled) {
+			if (!kvm_mtrr_valid(vcpu, MSR_IA32_CR_PAT, data))
+				return 1;
+			vcpu->arch.pat = data;
+			svm_set_guest_pat(svm, &svm->vmcb->save.g_pat);
+			mark_dirty(svm->vmcb, VMCB_NPT);
+			break;
+		}
+		/* fall through */
 	default:
 		return kvm_set_msr_common(vcpu, msr);
 	}
-- 
1.8.3.1


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