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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virt/kvm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst | 8 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst index 5bfe28b0728e..20d85daed395 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst @@ -171,8 +171,8 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: shadow pages) so role.quadrant takes values in the range 0..3. Each quadrant maps 1GB virtual address space. role.access: - Inherited guest access permissions in the form uwx. Note execute - permission is positive, not negative. + Inherited guest access permissions from the parent ptes in the form uwx. + Note execute permission is positive, not negative. role.invalid: The page is invalid and should not be used. It is a root page that is currently pinned (by a cpu hardware register pointing to it); once it is diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst index 5feb3706a7ae..af1b37441e0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst @@ -118,10 +118,12 @@ KVM_REQ_MMU_RELOAD necessary to inform each VCPU to completely refresh the tables. This request is used for that. -KVM_REQ_PENDING_TIMER +KVM_REQ_UNBLOCK - This request may be made from a timer handler run on the host on behalf - of a VCPU. It informs the VCPU thread to inject a timer interrupt. + This request informs the vCPU to exit kvm_vcpu_block. It is used for + example from timer handlers that run on the host on behalf of a vCPU, + or in order to update the interrupt routing and ensure that assigned + devices will wake up the vCPU. KVM_REQ_UNHALT |