Re: [PATCH 15/18] KVM: MMU: Propagate the right fault back to theguest after gva_to_gpa

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Mon Mar 15 2010 - 05:41:19 EST


On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:23:07AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/15/2010 11:06 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 09:36:52AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>>> On 03/03/2010 09:12 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>>>
>>>> This patch implements logic to make sure that either a
>>>> page-fault/page-fault-vmexit or a nested-page-fault-vmexit
>>>> is propagated back to the guest.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel<joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h | 1 +
>>>> arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 2 ++
>>>> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>>>> 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
>>>> index 64f619b..b42b27e 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
>>>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
>>>> @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
>>>> #define PFERR_USER_MASK (1U<< 2)
>>>> #define PFERR_RSVD_MASK (1U<< 3)
>>>> #define PFERR_FETCH_MASK (1U<< 4)
>>>> +#define PFERR_NESTED_MASK (1U<< 31)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why is this needed? Queue an ordinary page fault page; the injection
>>> code should check the page fault intercept and #VMEXIT if needed.
>>>
>> This is needed because we could have a nested page fault or an ordinary
>> page fault which need to be propagated.
>>
>
> Right.
>
> Why is pio_copy_data() changed? One would think that it would be an
> all-or-nothing affair.

It was the only place I found where the PROPAGATE_FAULT value was
checked and actually propagated.

Joerg

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