Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: use CPUID to locate host page table reserved bits | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Date | Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:07:55 +0100 |
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On 11/12/19 01:11, Huang, Kai wrote: >> kvm_get_shadow_phys_bits() must be conservative in that: >> >> 1) if a bit is reserved it _can_ return a value higher than its index >> >> 2) if a bit is used by the processor (for physical address or anything >> else) it _must_ return a value higher than its index. >> >> In the SEV case we're not obeying (2), because the function returns 43 >> when the C bit is bit 47. The patch fixes that. > Could we guarantee that C-bit is always below bits reported by CPUID?
That's a question for AMD. :) The C bit can move (and probably will, otherwise they wouldn't have bothered adding it to CPUID) in future generations of the processor.
Paolo
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