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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-13 21:14:24 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-13 21:14:24 +0300 |
commit | 55065bc52795faae549abfb912aacc622dd63876 (patch) | |
tree | 63683547e41ed459a2a8747eeafb5e969633d54f /Documentation/kvm/msr.txt | |
parent | 008d23e4852d78bb2618f2035f8b2110b6a6b968 (diff) | |
parent | e5c301428294cb8925667c9ee39f817c4ab1c2c9 (diff) | |
download | linux-55065bc52795faae549abfb912aacc622dd63876.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (142 commits)
KVM: Initialize fpu state in preemptible context
KVM: VMX: when entering real mode align segment base to 16 bytes
KVM: MMU: handle 'map_writable' in set_spte() function
KVM: MMU: audit: allow audit more guests at the same time
KVM: Fetch guest cr3 from hardware on demand
KVM: Replace reads of vcpu->arch.cr3 by an accessor
KVM: MMU: only write protect mappings at pagetable level
KVM: VMX: Correct asm constraint in vmcs_load()/vmcs_clear()
KVM: MMU: Initialize base_role for tdp mmus
KVM: VMX: Optimize atomic EFER load
KVM: VMX: Add definitions for more vm entry/exit control bits
KVM: SVM: copy instruction bytes from VMCB
KVM: SVM: implement enhanced INVLPG intercept
KVM: SVM: enhance mov DR intercept handler
KVM: SVM: enhance MOV CR intercept handler
KVM: SVM: add new SVM feature bit names
KVM: cleanup emulate_instruction
KVM: move complete_insn_gp() into x86.c
KVM: x86: fix CR8 handling
KVM guest: Fix kvm clock initialization when it's configured out
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kvm/msr.txt')
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1 files changed, 35 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt index 8ddcfe84c09a..d079aed27e03 100644 --- a/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt +++ b/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, Red Hat Inc, 2010 ===================================================== KVM makes use of some custom MSRs to service some requests. -At present, this facility is only used by kvmclock. Custom MSRs have a range reserved for them, that goes from 0x4b564d00 to 0x4b564dff. There are MSRs outside this area, @@ -151,3 +150,38 @@ MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME: 0x12 return PRESENT; } else return NON_PRESENT; + +MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN: 0x4b564d02 + data: Bits 63-6 hold 64-byte aligned physical address of a + 64 byte memory area which must be in guest RAM and must be + zeroed. Bits 5-2 are reserved and should be zero. Bit 0 is 1 + when asynchronous page faults are enabled on the vcpu 0 when + disabled. Bit 2 is 1 if asynchronous page faults can be injected + when vcpu is in cpl == 0. + + First 4 byte of 64 byte memory location will be written to by + the hypervisor at the time of asynchronous page fault (APF) + injection to indicate type of asynchronous page fault. Value + of 1 means that the page referred to by the page fault is not + present. Value 2 means that the page is now available. Disabling + interrupt inhibits APFs. Guest must not enable interrupt + before the reason is read, or it may be overwritten by another + APF. Since APF uses the same exception vector as regular page + fault guest must reset the reason to 0 before it does + something that can generate normal page fault. If during page + fault APF reason is 0 it means that this is regular page + fault. + + During delivery of type 1 APF cr2 contains a token that will + be used to notify a guest when missing page becomes + available. When page becomes available type 2 APF is sent with + cr2 set to the token associated with the page. There is special + kind of token 0xffffffff which tells vcpu that it should wake + up all processes waiting for APFs and no individual type 2 APFs + will be sent. + + If APF is disabled while there are outstanding APFs, they will + not be delivered. + + Currently type 2 APF will be always delivered on the same vcpu as + type 1 was, but guest should not rely on that. |