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Refuse to load KVM if NX support is not available and EPT is not enabled.
Shadow paging has assumed NX support since commit 9167ab79 ("KVM:
vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active"), so
for all intents and purposes this has been a de facto requirement for
over a year.

Do not require NX support if EPT is enabled purely because Intel CPUs let
firmware disable NX support via MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLES.  If not for that,
VMX (and KVM as a whole) could require NX support with minimal risk to
breaking userspace.

Fixes: 9167ab79

 ("KVM: vmx, svm: always run with EFER.NXE=1 when shadow paging is active")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210615164535.2146172-2-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>