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Date:   Tue, 4 Aug 2020 11:41:46 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>,
        Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Don't attempt to load PDPTRs when 64-bit mode
 is enabled
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 06:57:32PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Don't attempt to load PDPTRs if EFER.LME=1, i.e. if 64-bit mode is
> enabled.  A recent change to reload the PDTPRs when CR0.CD or CR0.NW is
> toggled botched the EFER.LME handling and sends KVM down the PDTPR path
> when is_paging() is true, i.e. when the guest toggles CD/NW in 64-bit
> mode.
> 
> Split the CR0 checks for 64-bit vs. 32-bit PAE into separate paths.  The
> 64-bit path is specifically checking state when paging is toggled on,
> i.e. CR0.PG transititions from 0->1.  The PDPTR path now needs to run if
> the new CR0 state has paging enabled, irrespective of whether paging was
> already enabled.  Trying to shave a few cycles to make the PDPTR path an
> "else if" case is a mess.
> 
> Fixes: d42e3fae6faed ("kvm: x86: Read PDPTEs on CR0.CD and CR0.NW changes")
> Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
> Cc: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
> Cc: Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
> ---

Ping.  This really needs to be in the initial pull for 5.9, as is kvm/queue
has a 100% fatality rate for me.