On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 05:10:46PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> This patch fixes the problem for VMX. For SVM, the logic used to
> determine the source of the task switch is buggy, so we can't pass
> useful information to the emulator there and just disable the check in
> all cases.
Actually, SVM isn't buggy :) For SVM you do not need to do any
priviledge checks in software because the hardware already takes care of
that.
In other words, KVM only gets a task-switch intercept if the priviledges
are all checked and correct.
Joerg
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