[Xen-devel] [PATCH] [HVM][SVM] Handle threshold register for guests

["Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>]

Hi!

The threshold register has been introduced in AMD RevF CPUs along with SVM
(Actually this MCA/MCE msr register existed before, but had no meaning).
Therefore no need for additional cpuid checks.

On read access it reports the HVM guest the register has been locked by the 
BIOS. This means, it is not available for OS use. Thus, write accesses are
simply ignored.
This behaviour actually matches real HW, so guests can deal with this.

Further, this way no multiplexing for multiple guests is necessary.
Please apply.

Signed off by: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>


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