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authorRyan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>2007-09-18 14:05:16 -0500
committerAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>2007-09-23 14:56:00 +0200
commit62d1ea7fdcdb905072198e4cec8f724c8ad33092 (patch)
tree5f4cdeabac9442f384691a7e1fa274f74fc32ef5
parent4acc535e64696fb09da6d2f41a5a8b8f60739c03 (diff)
KVM: MMU: Ignore reserved bits in cr3 in non-pae modekvm-44
This patch removes the fault injected when the guest attempts to set reserved bits in cr3. X86 hardware doesn't generate a fault when setting reserved bits. The result of this patch is that vmware-server, running within a kvm guest, boots and runs memtest from an iso. Signed-off-by: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c11
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
index bcb04c174089..cecdb1b178f8 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -574,14 +574,11 @@ void set_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr3)
inject_gp(vcpu);
return;
}
- } else {
- if (cr3 & CR3_NONPAE_RESERVED_BITS) {
- printk(KERN_DEBUG
- "set_cr3: #GP, reserved bits\n");
- inject_gp(vcpu);
- return;
- }
}
+ /*
+ * We don't check reserved bits in nonpae mode, because
+ * this isn't enforced, and VMware depends on this.
+ */
}
mutex_lock(&vcpu->kvm->lock);