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File 533ad1ee-VMX-fix-PAT-value-seen-by-guest.patch of Package xen (Revision d8816c68b42e2d2b6a305463ec58423d)

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# Commit fce79f8ce91dc45f3a4d699ee67c49e6cbeb1197
# Date 2014-04-01 16:49:18 +0200
# Author Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
# Committer Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
VMX: fix PAT value seen by guest

The XSA-60 fixes introduced a window during which the guest PAT gets
forced to all zeros. This shouldn't be visible to the guest. Therefore
we need to intercept PAT MSR accesses during that time period.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Liu Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -984,6 +984,8 @@ static void vmx_handle_cd(struct vcpu *v
 
             vmx_get_guest_pat(v, pat);
             vmx_set_guest_pat(v, uc_pat);
+            vmx_enable_intercept_for_msr(v, MSR_IA32_CR_PAT,
+                                         MSR_TYPE_R | MSR_TYPE_W);
 
             wbinvd();               /* flush possibly polluted cache */
             hvm_asid_flush_vcpu(v); /* invalidate memory type cached in TLB */
@@ -993,6 +995,9 @@ static void vmx_handle_cd(struct vcpu *v
         {
             v->arch.hvm_vcpu.cache_mode = NORMAL_CACHE_MODE;
             vmx_set_guest_pat(v, *pat);
+            if ( !iommu_enabled || iommu_snoop )
+                vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(v, MSR_IA32_CR_PAT,
+                                              MSR_TYPE_R | MSR_TYPE_W);
             hvm_asid_flush_vcpu(v); /* no need to flush cache */
         }
     }

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