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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 08:56:39 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To: "Andersen, John" <john.s.andersen@...el.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] KVM: x86: Introduce paravirt feature CR0/CR4 pinning

On 7/9/20 8:44 AM, Andersen, John wrote:
> 
>         Bits which are allowed to be pinned default to WP for CR0 and SMEP,
>         SMAP, and UMIP for CR4.

I think it also makes sense to have FSGSBASE in this set.

I know it hasn't been tested, but I think we should do the legwork to
test it.  If not in this set, can we agree that it's a logical next step?

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