KVM: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active
commit 9167ab79 upstream. VMX already does so if the host has SMEP, in order to support the combination of CR0.WP=1 and CR4.SMEP=1. However, it is perfectly safe to always do so, and in fact VMX also ends up running with EFER.NXE=1 on old processors that lack the "load EFER" controls, because it may help avoiding a slow MSR write. SVM does not have similar code, but it should since recent AMD processors do support SMEP. So this patch makes the code for the two vendors simpler and more similar, while fixing an issue with CR0.WP=1 and CR4.SMEP=1 on AMD. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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