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authorMiaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>2020-02-07 23:22:45 +0800
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2020-02-12 20:09:43 +0100
commitffdbd50dca67b1f12d6f531a0eaf2028d793e54f (patch)
treed95c4908ff28f37a33925e5253ce0ca9723db991 /arch/x86/include/asm
parent7a02674d154d38da33517855b6d1d4cfc27a9a04 (diff)
KVM: nVMX: Fix some comment typos and coding style
Fix some typos in the comments. Also fix coding style. [Sean Christopherson rewrites the comment of write_fault_to_shadow_pgtable field in struct kvm_vcpu_arch.] Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 4dffbc10d3f8..40a0c0fd95ca 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -781,9 +781,19 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
u64 msr_kvm_poll_control;
/*
- * Indicate whether the access faults on its page table in guest
- * which is set when fix page fault and used to detect unhandeable
- * instruction.
+ * Indicates the guest is trying to write a gfn that contains one or
+ * more of the PTEs used to translate the write itself, i.e. the access
+ * is changing its own translation in the guest page tables. KVM exits
+ * to userspace if emulation of the faulting instruction fails and this
+ * flag is set, as KVM cannot make forward progress.
+ *
+ * If emulation fails for a write to guest page tables, KVM unprotects
+ * (zaps) the shadow page for the target gfn and resumes the guest to
+ * retry the non-emulatable instruction (on hardware). Unprotecting the
+ * gfn doesn't allow forward progress for a self-changing access because
+ * doing so also zaps the translation for the gfn, i.e. retrying the
+ * instruction will hit a !PRESENT fault, which results in a new shadow
+ * page and sends KVM back to square one.
*/
bool write_fault_to_shadow_pgtable;