KVM: vmx: add support for emulating UMIP
UMIP can be emulated almost perfectly on Intel processor by enabling descriptor-table exits. SMSW does not cause a vmexit and hence it cannot be changed into a #GP fault, but all in all it's the most "innocuous" of the unprivileged instructions that UMIP blocks. In fact, Linux is _also_ emulating SMSW instructions on behalf of the program that executes them, because some 16-bit programs expect to use SMSW to detect vm86 mode, so this is an even smaller issue. Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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