On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:49:40AM -0700, kan.liang@intel.com wrote: > +/* > + * Under certain circumstances, access certain MSR may cause #GP. > + * The function tests if the input MSR can be safely accessed. > + */ > +static inline bool check_msr(unsigned long msr) > +{ > + u64 value; > + > + if (rdmsrl_safe(msr, &value) < 0) > + return false; > + if (wrmsrl_safe(msr, value) < 0) > + return false; > + return true; > +} What does this thing return after patch 2? does the write still fault or will KVM silently take writes too?