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VMX: disable SMEP feature when guest is in non-paging mode
SMEP is disabled if CPU is in non-paging mode in hardware.
However Xen always uses paging mode to emulate guest non-paging
mode with HAP. To emulate this behavior, SMEP needs to be manually
disabled when guest switches to non-paging mode.
We met an issue that, SMP Linux guest with recent kernel (enable
SMEP support, for example, 3.5.3) would crash with triple fault if
setting unrestricted_guest=0 in grub. This is because Xen uses an
identity mapping page table to emulate the non-paging mode, where
the page table is set with USER flag. If SMEP is still enabled in
this case, guest will meet unhandlable page fault and then crash.
Signed-off-by: Dongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
master commit: e7dda8ec9f
master date: 2013-01-30 09:17:30 -0800
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@@ -1186,6 +1186,13 @@ static void vmx_update_guest_cr(struct vcpu *v, unsigned int cr)
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v->arch.hvm_vcpu.hw_cr[4] |= X86_CR4_PSE;
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v->arch.hvm_vcpu.hw_cr[4] &= ~X86_CR4_PAE;
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/*
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* SMEP is disabled if CPU is in non-paging mode in hardware.
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* However Xen always uses paging mode to emulate guest non-paging
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* mode with HAP. To emulate this behavior, SMEP needs to be
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* manually disabled when guest switches to non-paging mode.
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*/
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v->arch.hvm_vcpu.hw_cr[4] &= ~X86_CR4_SMEP;
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}
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__vmwrite(GUEST_CR4, v->arch.hvm_vcpu.hw_cr[4]);
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__vmwrite(CR4_READ_SHADOW, v->arch.hvm_vcpu.guest_cr[4]);
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