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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h index 4dffbc10d3f8..40a0c0fd95ca 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h @@ -781,9 +781,19 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch { u64 msr_kvm_poll_control; /* - * Indicate whether the access faults on its page table in guest - * which is set when fix page fault and used to detect unhandeable - * instruction. + * Indicates the guest is trying to write a gfn that contains one or + * more of the PTEs used to translate the write itself, i.e. the access + * is changing its own translation in the guest page tables. KVM exits + * to userspace if emulation of the faulting instruction fails and this + * flag is set, as KVM cannot make forward progress. + * + * If emulation fails for a write to guest page tables, KVM unprotects + * (zaps) the shadow page for the target gfn and resumes the guest to + * retry the non-emulatable instruction (on hardware). Unprotecting the + * gfn doesn't allow forward progress for a self-changing access because + * doing so also zaps the translation for the gfn, i.e. retrying the + * instruction will hit a !PRESENT fault, which results in a new shadow + * page and sends KVM back to square one. */ bool write_fault_to_shadow_pgtable; |