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Mark all registers as available and dirty at vCPU creation, as the vCPU has obviously not been loaded into hardware, let alone been given the chance to be modified in hardware. On SVM, reading from "uninitialized" hardware is a non-issue as VMCBs are zero allocated (thus not truly uninitialized) and hardware does not allow for arbitrary field encoding schemes. On VMX, backing memory for VMCSes is also zero allocated, but true initialization of the VMCS _technically_ requires VMWRITEs, as the VMX architectural specification technically allows CPU implementations to encode fields with arbitrary schemes. E.g. a CPU could theoretically store the inverted value of every field, which would result in VMREAD to a zero-allocated field returns all ones. In practice, only the AR_BYTES fields are known to be manipulated by hardware during VMREAD/VMREAD; no known hardware or VMM (for nested VMX) does fancy encoding of cacheable field values (CR0, CR3, CR4, etc...). In other words, this is technically a bug fix, but practically speakings it's a glorified nop. Failure to mark registers as available has been a lurking bug for quite some time. The original register caching supported only GPRs (+RIP, which is kinda sorta a GPR), with the masks initialized at ->vcpu_reset(). That worked because the two cacheable registers, RIP and RSP, are generally speaking not read as side effects in other flows. Arguably, commit |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.