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KVM: VMX: Implement PCID/INVPCID for guests with EPT
authorMao, Junjie <junjie.mao@intel.com>
Mon, 2 Jul 2012 01:18:48 +0000 (01:18 +0000)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:07:34 +0000 (13:07 +0300)
commitc336ef50770e1318254b93312ae471de075e5980
tree0b01513f1e3434362ab9faf8394cbd158b31386d
parent741a4a0b3edf1c1cefb422e5d9c4e74fb484d46c
KVM: VMX: Implement PCID/INVPCID for guests with EPT

This patch handles PCID/INVPCID for guests.

Process-context identifiers (PCIDs) are a facility by which a logical processor
may cache information for multiple linear-address spaces so that the processor
may retain cached information when software switches to a different linear
address space. Refer to section 4.10.1 in IA32 Intel Software Developer's Manual
Volume 3A for details.

For guests with EPT, the PCID feature is enabled and INVPCID behaves as running
natively.
For guests without EPT, the PCID feature is disabled and INVPCID triggers #UD.

Signed-off-by: Junjie Mao <junjie.mao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
arch/x86/include/asm/processor-flags.h
arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h
arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c
arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.h
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c