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Commit 3b9c723e authored by Wei Huang's avatar Wei Huang Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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KVM: SVM: Add support for SVM instruction address check change



New AMD CPUs have a change that checks #VMEXIT intercept on special SVM
instructions before checking their EAX against reserved memory region.
This change is indicated by CPUID_0x8000000A_EDX[28]. If it is 1, #VMEXIT
is triggered before #GP. KVM doesn't need to intercept and emulate #GP
faults as #GP is supposed to be triggered.

Co-developed-by: default avatarBandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWei Huang <wei.huang2@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMaxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210126081831.570253-4-wei.huang2@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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