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Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] Disallow SMEP for PV guest
| To: | "Li, Xin" <xin.li@xxxxxxxxx>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Yang, Wei Y" <wei.y.yang@xxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] Disallow SMEP for PV guest |
| From: | Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:36:14 +0100 |
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| Delivery-date: | Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:37:51 -0700 |
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On 01/06/2011 16:17, "Li, Xin" <xin.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:31:12PM +0800, Yang, Wei Y wrote: >>> This patch disallows SMEP for PV guest. >> >> What are the reasons for it? What do we gain from it? > > X86_64 pv guests runs in ring3, which SMEP doesn't apply to. > > Kernel supports SMEP will set it thru writing to CR4, probably we can silently > ignore such writes from PV guests, but better to not let guest see it. Well, maybe. But if you hide the feature from the guest in CPUID then you should also hide it in CR4, which will involve some messing with real_cr4_to_pv_guest_cr4() and pv_guest_cr4_to_real_cr4(), in a fairly obvious manner. And you should hide it in dom0's CPUID too. -- Keir > Thanks! > -Xin > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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