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    KVM: SVM: Fake MSR_K7 performance counters · 14ae51b6
    Chris Lalancette authored
    Attached is a patch that fixes a guest crash when booting older Linux kernels.
    The problem stems from the fact that we are currently emulating
    MSR_K7_EVNTSEL[0-3], but not emulating MSR_K7_PERFCTR[0-3].  Because of this,
    setup_k7_watchdog() in the Linux kernel receives a GPF when it attempts to
    write into MSR_K7_PERFCTR, which causes an OOPs.
    
    The patch fixes it by just "fake" emulating the appropriate MSRs, throwing
    away the data in the process.  This causes the NMI watchdog to not actually
    work, but it's not such a big deal in a virtualized environment.
    
    When we get a write to one of these counters, we printk_ratelimit() a warning.
    I decided to print it out for all writes, even if the data is 0; it doesn't
    seem to make sense to me to special case when data == 0.
    
    Tested by myself on a RHEL-4 guest, and Joerg Roedel on a Windows XP 64-bit
    guest.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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