On 02/28/2018 12:12 PM, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 02/28/2018 10:38 AM, Razvan Cojocaru wrote:
>> In hardware, when PCID support is enabled and the NOFLUSH bit is set
>> when writing a CR3 value, the hardware will clear that that bit and
>> change the CR3 without flushing the TLB. hvm_set_cr3(), however, was
>> ignoring this bit; the result was that post-vm_event checks detected
>> an invalid CR3 value and crashed the domain.
>>
>> Handle NOFLUSH in hvm_set_cr3() by:
>> 1. Clearing the bit
>> 2. Passing a "noflush" flag to lower-level cr3 setting functions to
>> indicate that a flush should not be performed.
>>
>> Also clear X86_CR3_NOFLUSH when reporting CR3 monitored CR3 writes.
>>
>> This allows introspection to be used on VMs whose operating system uses
>> the NOFLUSH bit.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Razvan Cojocaru <rcojoc...@bitdefender.com>
>> Reported-by: Bitweasil <bitwea...@cryptohaze.com>
>> Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>
>> Acked-by: Tamas K Lengyel <ta...@tklengyel.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.t...@intel.com>
>> Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dun...@citrix.com>
> Boris / Suvaree, any opinions on the SVM changes?
>


Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com>

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