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    [PATCH] KVM: Prevent stale bits in cr0 and cr4 · 399badf3
    Avi Kivity authored
    Hardware virtualization implementations allow the guests to freely change some
    of the bits in cr0 and cr4, but trap when changing the other bits.  This is
    useful to avoid excessive exits due to changing, for example, the ts flag.
    
    It also means the kvm's copy of cr0 and cr4 may be stale with respect to these
    bits.  most of the time this doesn't matter as these bits are not very
    interesting.  Other times, however (for example when returning cr0 to
    userspace), they are, so get the fresh contents of these bits from the guest
    by means of a new arch operation.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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