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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c index 8f01019295a1..5d21a4ab28cf 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c @@ -969,17 +969,9 @@ static bool update_transition_efer(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx, int efer_offset) u64 guest_efer = vmx->vcpu.arch.efer; u64 ignore_bits = 0; - if (!enable_ept) { - /* - * NX is needed to handle CR0.WP=1, CR4.SMEP=1. Testing - * host CPUID is more efficient than testing guest CPUID - * or CR4. Host SMEP is anyway a requirement for guest SMEP. - */ - if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SMEP)) - guest_efer |= EFER_NX; - else if (!(guest_efer & EFER_NX)) - ignore_bits |= EFER_NX; - } + /* Shadow paging assumes NX to be available. */ + if (!enable_ept) + guest_efer |= EFER_NX; /* * LMA and LME handled by hardware; SCE meaningless outside long mode. |