linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 10/34] x86, x86/mm, x86/xen, olpc: Use __va() against just the physical address in cr3

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Message-ID: <67fe69ac-a213-8de3-db28-0e54bba95127@oracle.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Jun 2017 16:51:04 -0400
From:   Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:     Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
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        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Toshimitsu Kani <toshi.kani@....com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 10/34] x86, x86/mm, x86/xen, olpc: Use __va() against
 just the physical address in cr3


>
>> What may be needed is making sure X86_FEATURE_SME is not set for PV
>> guests.
>
> And that may be something that Xen will need to control through either
> CPUID or MSR support for the PV guests.


Only on newer versions of Xen. On earlier versions (2-3 years old) leaf
0x80000007 is passed to the guest unchanged. And so is MSR_K8_SYSCFG.

-boris