KVM: VMX: Preserve host CR4.MCE value while in guest mode.
commit 085e68ee upstream. The host's decision to enable machine check exceptions should remain in force during non-root mode. KVM was writing 0 to cr4 on VCPU reset and passed a slightly-modified 0 to the vmcs.guest_cr4 value. Tested: Built. On earlier version, tested by injecting machine check while a guest is spinning. Before the change, if guest CR4.MCE==0, then the machine check is escalated to Catastrophic Error (CATERR) and the machine dies. If guest CR4.MCE==1, then the machine check causes VMEXIT and is handled normally by host Linux. After the change, injecting a machine check causes normal Linux machine check handling. Signed-off-by: Ben Serebrin <serebrin@google.com> Reviewed-by: Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: use read_cr4() instead of cr4_read_shadow()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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