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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-10-23 11:17:56 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-10-23 11:17:56 -0700 |
commit | f9a705ad1c077ec2872c641f0db9c0d5b4a097bb (patch) | |
tree | 7f5d18d74f700be5bcf72ec5f4955f016eac9ab9 /arch/x86/mm/fault.c | |
parent | 9313f8026328d0309d093f6774be4b8f5340c0e5 (diff) | |
parent | 29cf0f5007a215b51feb0ae25ca5353480d53ead (diff) | |
download | linux-f9a705ad1c077ec2872c641f0db9c0d5b4a097bb.tar.bz2 |
Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"For x86, there is a new alternative and (in the future) more scalable
implementation of extended page tables that does not need a reverse
map from guest physical addresses to host physical addresses.
For now it is disabled by default because it is still lacking a few of
the existing MMU's bells and whistles. However it is a very solid
piece of work and it is already available for people to hammer on it.
Other updates:
ARM:
- New page table code for both hypervisor and guest stage-2
- Introduction of a new EL2-private host context
- Allow EL2 to have its own private per-CPU variables
- Support of PMU event filtering
- Complete rework of the Spectre mitigation
PPC:
- Fix for running nested guests with in-kernel IRQ chip
- Fix race condition causing occasional host hard lockup
- Minor cleanups and bugfixes
x86:
- allow trapping unknown MSRs to userspace
- allow userspace to force #GP on specific MSRs
- INVPCID support on AMD
- nested AMD cleanup, on demand allocation of nested SVM state
- hide PV MSRs and hypercalls for features not enabled in CPUID
- new test for MSR_IA32_TSC writes from host and guest
- cleanups: MMU, CPUID, shared MSRs
- LAPIC latency optimizations ad bugfixes"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (232 commits)
kvm: x86/mmu: NX largepage recovery for TDP MMU
kvm: x86/mmu: Don't clear write flooding count for direct roots
kvm: x86/mmu: Support MMIO in the TDP MMU
kvm: x86/mmu: Support write protection for nesting in tdp MMU
kvm: x86/mmu: Support disabling dirty logging for the tdp MMU
kvm: x86/mmu: Support dirty logging for the TDP MMU
kvm: x86/mmu: Support changed pte notifier in tdp MMU
kvm: x86/mmu: Add access tracking for tdp_mmu
kvm: x86/mmu: Support invalidate range MMU notifier for TDP MMU
kvm: x86/mmu: Allocate struct kvm_mmu_pages for all pages in TDP MMU
kvm: x86/mmu: Add TDP MMU PF handler
kvm: x86/mmu: Remove disallowed_hugepage_adjust shadow_walk_iterator arg
kvm: x86/mmu: Support zapping SPTEs in the TDP MMU
KVM: Cache as_id in kvm_memory_slot
kvm: x86/mmu: Add functions to handle changed TDP SPTEs
kvm: x86/mmu: Allocate and free TDP MMU roots
kvm: x86/mmu: Init / Uninit the TDP MMU
kvm: x86/mmu: Introduce tdp_iter
KVM: mmu: extract spte.h and spte.c
KVM: mmu: Separate updating a PTE from kvm_set_pte_rmapp
...
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/fault.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index 42606a04ae85..82bf37a5c9ec 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -1446,11 +1446,14 @@ DEFINE_IDTENTRY_RAW_ERRORCODE(exc_page_fault) prefetchw(¤t->mm->mmap_lock); /* - * KVM has two types of events that are, logically, interrupts, but - * are unfortunately delivered using the #PF vector. These events are - * "you just accessed valid memory, but the host doesn't have it right - * now, so I'll put you to sleep if you continue" and "that memory - * you tried to access earlier is available now." + * KVM uses #PF vector to deliver 'page not present' events to guests + * (asynchronous page fault mechanism). The event happens when a + * userspace task is trying to access some valid (from guest's point of + * view) memory which is not currently mapped by the host (e.g. the + * memory is swapped out). Note, the corresponding "page ready" event + * which is injected when the memory becomes available, is delived via + * an interrupt mechanism and not a #PF exception + * (see arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c: sysvec_kvm_asyncpf_interrupt()). * * We are relying on the interrupted context being sane (valid RSP, * relevant locks not held, etc.), which is fine as long as the |