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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index 0db7743c55e1..0aa8e0e34119 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -272,14 +272,21 @@ This is the most complicated event. The cause of a page fault can be: Handling a page fault is performed as follows: + - if the RSV bit of the error code is set, the page fault is caused by guest + accessing MMIO and cached MMIO information is available. + - walk shadow page table + - cache the information to vcpu->arch.mmio_gva, vcpu->arch.access and + vcpu->arch.mmio_gfn, and call the emulator - if needed, walk the guest page tables to determine the guest translation (gva->gpa or ngpa->gpa) - if permissions are insufficient, reflect the fault back to the guest - determine the host page - - if this is an mmio request, there is no host page; call the emulator - to emulate the instruction instead + - if this is an mmio request, there is no host page; cache the info to + vcpu->arch.mmio_gva, vcpu->arch.access and vcpu->arch.mmio_gfn - walk the shadow page table to find the spte for the translation, instantiating missing intermediate page tables as necessary + - If this is an mmio request, cache the mmio info to the spte and set some + reserved bit on the spte (see callers of kvm_mmu_set_mmio_spte_mask) - try to unsynchronize the page - if successful, we can let the guest continue and modify the gpte - emulate the instruction |