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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-23 11:17:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-10-23 11:17:56 -0700
commitf9a705ad1c077ec2872c641f0db9c0d5b4a097bb (patch)
tree7f5d18d74f700be5bcf72ec5f4955f016eac9ab9 /arch/x86/mm/fault.c
parent9313f8026328d0309d093f6774be4b8f5340c0e5 (diff)
parent29cf0f5007a215b51feb0ae25ca5353480d53ead (diff)
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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.c13
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(&current->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