On 04/27/2010 04:57 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
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>> But the nested guest can use pae paging and generate a #NPF with
>> exit_info_2>  4GB.  So we need to keep the full fault address; if we
>> truncate, the guest might actually resolve the fault and let the
>> nested guest continue.
>>      
> This could only be a malicious guest because it can't have memory above
> 4gb. But a guest could certainly setup its page tables to point there,
> thats true. So I change it to u64.
>    

It doesn't need to be malicious, for example it could set up an mmio PCI 
BAR outside the 4GB space.

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