[Xen-devel] [V0 PATCH 1/2] AMD-PVH: set EFER.NX and EFER.SCE for the boot vcpu

[Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On AMD, NX feature must be enabled in the efer for NX to be honored in
the pte entries, otherwise protection fault. We also set SC for
system calls to be enabled.

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
index c0cb11f..4af512d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -1499,6 +1499,17 @@ void __ref xen_pvh_secondary_vcpu_init(int cpu)
        xen_pvh_set_cr_flags(cpu);
 }
 
+/* This is done in secondary_startup_64 for hvm guests. */
+static void __init xen_configure_efer(void)
+{
+       u64 efer;
+
+       rdmsrl(MSR_EFER, efer);
+       efer |= EFER_SCE;
+       efer |= (cpuid_edx(0x80000001) & (1 << 20)) ? EFER_NX : 0;
+       wrmsrl(MSR_EFER, efer);
+}
+
 static void __init xen_pvh_early_guest_init(void)
 {
        if (!xen_feature(XENFEAT_auto_translated_physmap))
@@ -1508,6 +1519,7 @@ static void __init xen_pvh_early_guest_init(void)
                return;
 
        xen_have_vector_callback = 1;
+       xen_configure_efer();
        xen_pvh_set_cr_flags(0);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-- 
1.8.3.1


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