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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst index 85876afe0441..1fc860c007a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/locking.rst @@ -44,18 +44,18 @@ following two cases: 2. Write-Protection: The SPTE is present and the fault is caused by write-protect. That means we just need to change the W bit of the spte. -What we use to avoid all the race is the SPTE_HOST_WRITEABLE bit and -SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE bit on the spte: +What we use to avoid all the race is the Host-writable bit and MMU-writable bit +on the spte: -- SPTE_HOST_WRITEABLE means the gfn is writable on host. -- SPTE_MMU_WRITEABLE means the gfn is writable on mmu. The bit is set when - the gfn is writable on guest mmu and it is not write-protected by shadow - page write-protection. +- Host-writable means the gfn is writable in the host kernel page tables and in + its KVM memslot. +- MMU-writable means the gfn is writable in the guest's mmu and it is not + write-protected by shadow page write-protection. On fast page fault path, we will use cmpxchg to atomically set the spte W -bit if spte.SPTE_HOST_WRITEABLE = 1 and spte.SPTE_WRITE_PROTECT = 1, to -restore the saved R/X bits if for an access-traced spte, or both. This is -safe because whenever changing these bits can be detected by cmpxchg. +bit if spte.HOST_WRITEABLE = 1 and spte.WRITE_PROTECT = 1, to restore the saved +R/X bits if for an access-traced spte, or both. This is safe because whenever +changing these bits can be detected by cmpxchg. But we need carefully check these cases: |