[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: [PATCH 2/3] x86/boot: Don't enable EFER.SCE for !CONFIG_PV builds
> From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 10:59 PM > > This will cause all SYSCALL/SYSRET instructions to suffer #UD rather than > following the MSR_{L,C}STAR pointers, allowing us to drop the star_enter() > panic helper, allowing us to clean up the IST stacks in a subsequent patch. > > Drop the now-dead conditional SYSENTER logic in the middle of > subarch_percpu_traps_init(). > > In addition, vmx_restore_host_msrs() need not restore any host > state. (Regarding the asymmetric changes, VT-x automatically restores > SYSENTER state on vmexit, and SVM restores both SYSCALL/SYSENTER state > with > the VMSAVE/VMLOAD instructions.) > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
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