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x86/PV: conditionally avoid raising #GP for early guest MSR reads
Prior to 4.15 Linux, when running in PV mode, did not install a #GP handler early enough to cover for example the rdmsrl_safe() of MSR_K8_TSEG_ADDR in bsp_init_amd() (not to speak of the unguarded read of MSR_K7_HWCR later in the same function). The respective change (42b3a4cb5609 "x86/xen: Support early interrupts in xen pv guests") was backported to 4.14, but no further - presumably since it wasn't really easy because of other dependencies. Therefore, to prevent our change in the handling of guest MSR accesses to render PV Linux 4.13 and older unusable on at least AMD systems, make the raising of #GP on this paths conditional upon the guest having installed a handler, provided of course the MSR can be read in the first place (we would have raised #GP in that case even before). Producing zero for reads isn't necessarily correct and may trip code trying to detect presence of MSRs early, but since such detection logic won't work without a #GP handler anyway, this ought to be a fair workaround. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Release-Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>
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