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Sean Christopherson authored
Add a VMX flag in /proc/cpuinfo, ept_5level, so that userspace can query whether or not the CPU supports 5-level EPT paging. EPT capabilities are enumerated via MSR, i.e. aren't accessible to userspace without help from the kernel, and knowing whether or not 5-level EPT is supported is useful for debug, triage, testing, etc. For example, when EPT is enabled, bits 51:48 of guest physical addresses are consumed by the CPU if and only if 5-level EPT is enabled. For CPUs with MAXPHYADDR > 48, KVM *can't* map all legal guest memory without 5-level EPT, making 5-level EPT support valuable information for userspace. Reported-by: Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com> Cc: Tao Su <tao1.su@linux.intel.com> Cc: Xudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240110002340.485595-1-seanjc@google.comSigned-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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