[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] x86/vmx: Add command line option to enable EPT without PAT
>>>> +### ept\_without\_pat (Intel) >>>> +> `= <boolean>` >>>> + >>>> +> Default: `false` >>>> + >>>> +Allow EPT to be enabled when PAT is not present. >>> >>>This is a little too broad and hence confusing statement: I'm pretty >>>certain PAT (the MSR) gets implemented/emulated by hypervisors. >>>What's needed here (and potentially missing in emulations) is the >>>VMX feature VM_ENTRY_LOAD_GUEST_PAT, and it should be said >>>so. >> >> OK, I will update the description to reflect that. What should I call the >> option? ept_without_vmx_pat? > >I think I like Kevin's suggestion, e.g. "force-ept". Sounds good. I will resubmit. I guess in the future if we have more situations arising where we need to force ept, we could make "force_ept" in to a bitmask to have some granularity in forcing EPT to be turned on. Thanks, Aravindh _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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