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Honor cpuid.nx when enabling efer.nxe

PATCH Applied Avi Kivity 2 participants 2 messages Dec 21, 2010 – Dec 23, 2010 KVM

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PATCH 1/1 Honor cpuid.nx when enabling efer.nxe

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 x86/vmexit.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
x86/vmexit.c +2 -1
index 551083d..67746c6 100644
@@ -144,7 +144,8 @@ static void do_test(struct test *test)
 
 static void enable_nx(void *junk)
 {
-	wrmsr(MSR_EFER, rdmsr(MSR_EFER) | EFER_NX_MASK);
+	if (cpuid(0x80000001).d & (1 << 20))
+		wrmsr(MSR_EFER, rdmsr(MSR_EFER) | EFER_NX_MASK);
 }
 
 int main(void)
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