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authorWanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>2017-07-13 18:30:42 -0700
committerRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>2017-07-14 14:26:16 +0200
commit52a5c155cf79f1f059bffebf4d06d0249573e659 (patch)
tree292b7e858eef7f1f2fd5d664a2f96c3974987582 /Documentation/virtual
parentadfe20fb48785dd73af3bf91407196eb5403c8cf (diff)
downloadlinux-next-52a5c155cf79f1f059bffebf4d06d0249573e659.tar.gz
KVM: async_pf: Let guest support delivery of async_pf from guest mode
Adds another flag bit (bit 2) to MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN. If bit 2 is 1, async page faults are delivered to L1 as #PF vmexits; if bit 2 is 0, kvm_can_do_async_pf returns 0 if in guest mode. This is similar to what svm.c wanted to do all along, but it is only enabled for Linux as L1 hypervisor. Foreign hypervisors must never receive async page faults as vmexits, because they'd probably be very confused about that. Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
index 0a9ea515512a..1ebecc115dc6 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/msr.txt
@@ -166,10 +166,11 @@ MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME: 0x12
MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN: 0x4b564d02
data: Bits 63-6 hold 64-byte aligned physical address of a
64 byte memory area which must be in guest RAM and must be
- zeroed. Bits 5-2 are reserved and should be zero. Bit 0 is 1
+ zeroed. Bits 5-3 are reserved and should be zero. Bit 0 is 1
when asynchronous page faults are enabled on the vcpu 0 when
disabled. Bit 1 is 1 if asynchronous page faults can be injected
- when vcpu is in cpl == 0.
+ when vcpu is in cpl == 0. Bit 2 is 1 if asynchronous page faults
+ are delivered to L1 as #PF vmexits.
First 4 byte of 64 byte memory location will be written to by
the hypervisor at the time of asynchronous page fault (APF)