Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] x86/svm: correct EFER.SVME intercept checks

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/03/2018 12:10 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 03/02/18 17:03, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > On 01/31/2018 03:35 PM, Brian Woods wrote:
> > > Corrects some EFER.SVME checks in intercepts.  See AMD APM vol2 section
> > > 15.4 for more details.  VMMCALL isn't checked due to guests needing it
> > > to boot.
> > Don't you need SVME be on for VMMCALL?
> In real hardware, yes.
>
> However, it's quite unreasonable to require the guest to have activated
> its idea of EFER.SVME before it can make hypercalls :)


Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>

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