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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 4dffbc10d3f8..98959e8cd448 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;
@@ -1112,6 +1122,7 @@ struct kvm_x86_ops {
int (*handle_exit)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
enum exit_fastpath_completion exit_fastpath);
int (*skip_emulated_instruction)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
+ void (*update_emulated_instruction)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void (*set_interrupt_shadow)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int mask);
u32 (*get_interrupt_shadow)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void (*patch_hypercall)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
@@ -1136,7 +1147,7 @@ struct kvm_x86_ops {
void (*load_eoi_exitmap)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *eoi_exit_bitmap);
void (*set_virtual_apic_mode)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void (*set_apic_access_page_addr)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, hpa_t hpa);
- void (*deliver_posted_interrupt)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int vector);
+ int (*deliver_posted_interrupt)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int vector);
int (*sync_pir_to_irr)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
int (*set_tss_addr)(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned int addr);
int (*set_identity_map_addr)(struct kvm *kvm, u64 ident_addr);