[PATCH 4/5] KVM: SVM: Allow EFER.LMSLE to be set with nested svm

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Wed May 05 2010 - 10:05:53 EST


This patch enables setting of efer bit 13 which is allowed
in all SVM capable processors. This is necessary for the
SLES11 version of Xen 4.0 to boot with nested svm.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 2 ++
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
index bc473ac..352767d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#define _EFER_LMA 10 /* Long mode active (read-only) */
#define _EFER_NX 11 /* No execute enable */
#define _EFER_SVME 12 /* Enable virtualization */
+#define _EFER_LMSLE 13 /* Long Mode Segment Limit Enable */
#define _EFER_FFXSR 14 /* Enable Fast FXSAVE/FXRSTOR */

#define EFER_SCE (1<<_EFER_SCE)
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@
#define EFER_LMA (1<<_EFER_LMA)
#define EFER_NX (1<<_EFER_NX)
#define EFER_SVME (1<<_EFER_SVME)
+#define EFER_LMSLE (1<<_EFER_LMSLE)
#define EFER_FFXSR (1<<_EFER_FFXSR)

/* Intel MSRs. Some also available on other CPUs */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index 74f7b9d..bc087c7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ static __init int svm_hardware_setup(void)

if (nested) {
printk(KERN_INFO "kvm: Nested Virtualization enabled\n");
- kvm_enable_efer_bits(EFER_SVME);
+ kvm_enable_efer_bits(EFER_SVME | EFER_LMSLE);
}

for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
--
1.7.1


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