x86: tighten conditions under which writing certain MSRs is permitted
authorKeir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:19:23 +0000 (14:19 +0000)
committerKeir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:19:23 +0000 (14:19 +0000)
commit68ef426319e7d3cfe95b980cfb88f2776450df70
tree349ca01b90f73163b8e520b871578b12f886f289
parent8ad67c8e05b9dec349d8cc0a72acdb872f39dd0d
x86: tighten conditions under which writing certain MSRs is permitted

MSRs that control physical CPU aspects generally are pointless (and
possibly dangerous) to be written when the writer isn't sufficiently
aware that it's running virtualized.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
xen/arch/x86/traps.c