KVM: Ignore the writes to MSR_K7_HWCR(3)
authorNicolae Mogoreanu <mogoreanu@gmail.com>
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:44:21 +0000 (13:44 -0800)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Thu, 8 Mar 2012 12:14:14 +0000 (14:14 +0200)
When CPUID Fn8000_0001_EAX reports 0x00100f22 Windows 7 x64 guest
tries to set bit 3 in MSRC001_0015 in nt!KiDisableCacheErrataSource
and fails. This patch will ignore this step and allow things to move
on without having to fake CPUID value.

Signed-off-by: Nicolae Mogoreanu <mogoreanu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c

index 6866083..32096cf 100644 (file)
@@ -1547,6 +1547,7 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 data)
        case MSR_K7_HWCR:
                data &= ~(u64)0x40;     /* ignore flush filter disable */
                data &= ~(u64)0x100;    /* ignore ignne emulation enable */
+               data &= ~(u64)0x8;      /* ignore TLB cache disable */
                if (data != 0) {
                        pr_unimpl(vcpu, "unimplemented HWCR wrmsr: 0x%llx\n",
                                data);