Re: [Xen-devel] vmx & efer

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/5/07 09:57, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> You seem to be assuming that if the hypervisor executes with 4-level
>> pagetables then so must all VMX guests. This isn't true. A VMX VCPU running
>> in 32-bit mode (PAE or not) will execute with 3-level pagetables when
>> running on x86/64 Xen.
> 
> Oh, okay, I didn't realize that. That makes things look consistent again, as
> long
> as you are saying that in this mode the physical CR3 continues to be a 64-bit
> register?

That I'm not sure about. We always ensure the shadow PAE CR3 is in low 4GB,
so we don't have to worry about this. I guess it depends whether PAE CR3 is
32-bit because of microarchitectural assumptions, or merely because in
32-bit mode there is no way to write more than 32 bits to a control
register.

 -- Keir



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