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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 113 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst | 28 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 2 |
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 135 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index abd7c32126ce..236a797be71c 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -4074,7 +4074,7 @@ Queues an SMI on the thread's vcpu. 4.97 KVM_X86_SET_MSR_FILTER ---------------------------- -:Capability: KVM_X86_SET_MSR_FILTER +:Capability: KVM_CAP_X86_MSR_FILTER :Architectures: x86 :Type: vm ioctl :Parameters: struct kvm_msr_filter @@ -4173,8 +4173,10 @@ If an MSR access is not permitted through the filtering, it generates a allows user space to deflect and potentially handle various MSR accesses into user space. -If a vCPU is in running state while this ioctl is invoked, the vCPU may -experience inconsistent filtering behavior on MSR accesses. +Note, invoking this ioctl while a vCPU is running is inherently racy. However, +KVM does guarantee that vCPUs will see either the previous filter or the new +filter, e.g. MSRs with identical settings in both the old and new filter will +have deterministic behavior. 4.98 KVM_CREATE_SPAPR_TCE_64 ---------------------------- @@ -5287,110 +5289,7 @@ KVM_PV_DUMP authentication tag all of which are needed to decrypt the dump at a later time. - -4.126 KVM_X86_SET_MSR_FILTER ----------------------------- - -:Capability: KVM_CAP_X86_MSR_FILTER -:Architectures: x86 -:Type: vm ioctl -:Parameters: struct kvm_msr_filter -:Returns: 0 on success, < 0 on error - -:: - - struct kvm_msr_filter_range { - #define KVM_MSR_FILTER_READ (1 << 0) - #define KVM_MSR_FILTER_WRITE (1 << 1) - __u32 flags; - __u32 nmsrs; /* number of msrs in bitmap */ - __u32 base; /* MSR index the bitmap starts at */ - __u8 *bitmap; /* a 1 bit allows the operations in flags, 0 denies */ - }; - - #define KVM_MSR_FILTER_MAX_RANGES 16 - struct kvm_msr_filter { - #define KVM_MSR_FILTER_DEFAULT_ALLOW (0 << 0) - #define KVM_MSR_FILTER_DEFAULT_DENY (1 << 0) - __u32 flags; - struct kvm_msr_filter_range ranges[KVM_MSR_FILTER_MAX_RANGES]; - }; - -flags values for ``struct kvm_msr_filter_range``: - -``KVM_MSR_FILTER_READ`` - - Filter read accesses to MSRs using the given bitmap. A 0 in the bitmap - indicates that a read should immediately fail, while a 1 indicates that - a read for a particular MSR should be handled regardless of the default - filter action. - -``KVM_MSR_FILTER_WRITE`` - - Filter write accesses to MSRs using the given bitmap. A 0 in the bitmap - indicates that a write should immediately fail, while a 1 indicates that - a write for a particular MSR should be handled regardless of the default - filter action. - -``KVM_MSR_FILTER_READ | KVM_MSR_FILTER_WRITE`` - - Filter both read and write accesses to MSRs using the given bitmap. A 0 - in the bitmap indicates that both reads and writes should immediately fail, - while a 1 indicates that reads and writes for a particular MSR are not - filtered by this range. - -flags values for ``struct kvm_msr_filter``: - -``KVM_MSR_FILTER_DEFAULT_ALLOW`` - - If no filter range matches an MSR index that is getting accessed, KVM will - fall back to allowing access to the MSR. - -``KVM_MSR_FILTER_DEFAULT_DENY`` - - If no filter range matches an MSR index that is getting accessed, KVM will - fall back to rejecting access to the MSR. In this mode, all MSRs that should - be processed by KVM need to explicitly be marked as allowed in the bitmaps. - -This ioctl allows user space to define up to 16 bitmaps of MSR ranges to -specify whether a certain MSR access should be explicitly filtered for or not. - -If this ioctl has never been invoked, MSR accesses are not guarded and the -default KVM in-kernel emulation behavior is fully preserved. - -Calling this ioctl with an empty set of ranges (all nmsrs == 0) disables MSR -filtering. In that mode, ``KVM_MSR_FILTER_DEFAULT_DENY`` is invalid and causes -an error. - -As soon as the filtering is in place, every MSR access is processed through -the filtering except for accesses to the x2APIC MSRs (from 0x800 to 0x8ff); -x2APIC MSRs are always allowed, independent of the ``default_allow`` setting, -and their behavior depends on the ``X2APIC_ENABLE`` bit of the APIC base -register. - -If a bit is within one of the defined ranges, read and write accesses are -guarded by the bitmap's value for the MSR index if the kind of access -is included in the ``struct kvm_msr_filter_range`` flags. If no range -cover this particular access, the behavior is determined by the flags -field in the kvm_msr_filter struct: ``KVM_MSR_FILTER_DEFAULT_ALLOW`` -and ``KVM_MSR_FILTER_DEFAULT_DENY``. - -Each bitmap range specifies a range of MSRs to potentially allow access on. -The range goes from MSR index [base .. base+nmsrs]. The flags field -indicates whether reads, writes or both reads and writes are filtered -by setting a 1 bit in the bitmap for the corresponding MSR index. - -If an MSR access is not permitted through the filtering, it generates a -#GP inside the guest. When combined with KVM_CAP_X86_USER_SPACE_MSR, that -allows user space to deflect and potentially handle various MSR accesses -into user space. - -Note, invoking this ioctl with a vCPU is running is inherently racy. However, -KVM does guarantee that vCPUs will see either the previous filter or the new -filter, e.g. MSRs with identical settings in both the old and new filter will -have deterministic behavior. - -4.127 KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR +4.126 KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR -------------------------- :Capability: KVM_CAP_XEN_HVM / KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_SHARED_INFO diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst index 31f62b64e07b..87f04c1fa53d 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/vcpu-requests.rst @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ VCPU requests are simply bit indices of the ``vcpu->requests`` bitmap. This means general bitops, like those documented in [atomic-ops]_ could also be used, e.g. :: - clear_bit(KVM_REQ_UNHALT & KVM_REQUEST_MASK, &vcpu->requests); + clear_bit(KVM_REQ_UNBLOCK & KVM_REQUEST_MASK, &vcpu->requests); However, VCPU request users should refrain from doing so, as it would break the abstraction. The first 8 bits are reserved for architecture @@ -126,17 +126,6 @@ KVM_REQ_UNBLOCK or in order to update the interrupt routing and ensure that assigned devices will wake up the vCPU. -KVM_REQ_UNHALT - - This request may be made from the KVM common function kvm_vcpu_block(), - which is used to emulate an instruction that causes a CPU to halt until - one of an architectural specific set of events and/or interrupts is - received (determined by checking kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable()). When that - event or interrupt arrives kvm_vcpu_block() makes the request. This is - in contrast to when kvm_vcpu_block() returns due to any other reason, - such as a pending signal, which does not indicate the VCPU's halt - emulation should stop, and therefore does not make the request. - KVM_REQ_OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE This "request" ensures the target vCPU has exited guest mode prior to the @@ -297,21 +286,6 @@ architecture dependent. kvm_vcpu_block() calls kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable() to check if it should awaken. One reason to do so is to provide architectures a function where requests may be checked if necessary. -Clearing Requests ------------------ - -Generally it only makes sense for the receiving VCPU thread to clear a -request. However, in some circumstances, such as when the requesting -thread and the receiving VCPU thread are executed serially, such as when -they are the same thread, or when they are using some form of concurrency -control to temporarily execute synchronously, then it's possible to know -that the request may be cleared immediately, rather than waiting for the -receiving VCPU thread to handle the request in VCPU RUN. The only current -examples of this are kvm_vcpu_block() calls made by VCPUs to block -themselves. A possible side-effect of that call is to make the -KVM_REQ_UNHALT request, which may then be cleared immediately when the -VCPU returns from the call. - References ========== diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst index 8739120f4300..8364afa228ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ Emulating cr0.wp ================ If tdp is not enabled, the host must keep cr0.wp=1 so page write protection -works for the guest kernel, not guest guest userspace. When the guest +works for the guest kernel, not guest userspace. When the guest cr0.wp=1, this does not present a problem. However when the guest cr0.wp=0, we cannot map the permissions for gpte.u=1, gpte.w=0 to any spte (the semantics require allowing any guest kernel access plus user read access). |