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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: MMU: Use base_role.nxe for mmu.nx
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:08:37PM -0400, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> For tdp better set base_role.nxe to zero, otherwise duplicate tdp
> pagetables can be created if the guest switches between nx/non-nx.
>

This does not work because bit 63 is marked as reserved if base_role.nxe
is 0. If the walk_addr_generic function then runs with tdp enabled it
would report a set nx bit as a rsvd fault.
We also can't use is_nx() in those path because it does not distinguish
between l1 and l2 nx. Are there guests that switch the efer.nx bit
regularly enough so that it matters? If so I would suggest to drop this
patch and keep mmu.nx.

Joerg

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