Re: [PATCH 2/5] KVM: svm: Disallow EFER.LMSLE on hardware that doesn't support it

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Sep 16 2022 - 18:09:55 EST


On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 02:00:26PM -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> It's possible that SLES11 Xen 4.0 sets the bit, but never actually
> uses truncated segments in 64-bit mode. In any case, according to the
> original commit, it won't boot if setting EFER.LMSLE is not allowed.

How is SLE11 at all relevant to the upstream kernel?

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