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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2017-03-30 11:55:30 +0200
committerRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>2017-04-07 16:49:00 +0200
commitae1e2d1082ae6969ff8c626ef80804d950bf256b (patch)
tree221bc3b5c7e8352cf07c56418ed61d42a558923c /virt/lib
parent86407bcb5c8320add17b57dc6af1586ff8e14bc0 (diff)
downloadlinux-ae1e2d1082ae6969ff8c626ef80804d950bf256b.tar.bz2
kvm: nVMX: support EPT accessed/dirty bits
Now use bit 6 of EPTP to optionally enable A/D bits for EPTP. Another thing to change is that, when EPT accessed and dirty bits are not in use, VMX treats accesses to guest paging structures as data reads. When they are in use (bit 6 of EPTP is set), they are treated as writes and the corresponding EPT dirty bit is set. The MMU didn't know this detail, so this patch adds it. We also have to fix up the exit qualification. It may be wrong because KVM sets bit 6 but the guest might not. L1 emulates EPT A/D bits using write permissions, so in principle it may be possible for EPT A/D bits to be used by L1 even though not available in hardware. The problem is that guest page-table walks will be treated as reads rather than writes, so they would not cause an EPT violation. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> [Fixed typo in walk_addr_generic() comment and changed bit clear + conditional-set pattern in handle_ept_violation() to conditional-clear] Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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