diff options
| author | David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> | 2021-12-10 16:36:22 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2022-01-07 10:44:45 -0500 |
| commit | 1cfc9c4b9d4606a1e90e7dbc50058b9f0c1d43a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 1bfa5ca90e8aab707e92882cf3cbb5ab009f053c /Documentation/virt | |
| parent | 982ed0de4753ed6e71dbd40f82a5a066baf133ed (diff) | |
KVM: x86/xen: Maintain valid mapping of Xen shared_info page
Use the newly reinstated gfn_to_pfn_cache to maintain a kernel mapping
of the Xen shared_info page so that it can be accessed in atomic context.
Note that we do not participate in dirty tracking for the shared info
page and we do not explicitly mark it dirty every single tim we deliver
an event channel interrupts. We wouldn't want to do that even if we *did*
have a valid vCPU context with which to do so.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <20211210163625.2886-4-dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index b86c7edae888..c168be764707 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -371,6 +371,9 @@ The bits in the dirty bitmap are cleared before the ioctl returns, unless KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2 is enabled. For more information, see the description of the capability. +Note that the Xen shared info page, if configured, shall always be assumed +to be dirty. KVM will not explicitly mark it such. + 4.9 KVM_SET_MEMORY_ALIAS ------------------------ @@ -5134,6 +5137,15 @@ KVM_XEN_ATTR_TYPE_SHARED_INFO not aware of the Xen CPU id which is used as the index into the vcpu_info[] array, so cannot know the correct default location. + Note that the shared info page may be constantly written to by KVM; + it contains the event channel bitmap used to deliver interrupts to + a Xen guest, amongst other things. It is exempt from dirty tracking + mechanisms — KVM will not explicitly mark the page as dirty each + time an event channel interrupt is delivered to the guest! Thus, + userspace should always assume that the designated GFN is dirty if + any vCPU has been running or any event channel interrupts can be + routed to the guest. + KVM_XEN_ATTR_TYPE_UPCALL_VECTOR Sets the exception vector used to deliver Xen event channel upcalls. |