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neel
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svn:date
V 27
2014-09-13T22:16:40.264173Z
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V 648
AMD processors that have the SVM decode assist capability will store the
instruction bytes in the VMCB on a nested page fault. This is useful because
it saves having to walk the guest page tables to fetch the instruction.

vie_init() now takes two additional parameters 'inst_bytes' and 'inst_len'
that map directly to 'vie->inst[]' and 'vie->num_valid'.

The instruction emulation handler skips calling 'vmm_fetch_instruction()'
if 'vie->num_valid' is non-zero.

The use of this capability can be turned off by setting the sysctl/tunable
'hw.vmm.svm.disable_npf_assist' to '1'.

Reviewed by:	Anish Gupta (akgupt3@gmail.com)
Discussed with:	grehan

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