| From: |
| Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
| To: |
| Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH v6 00/12] KVM: introduce readonly memslot |
| Date: |
| Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:57:01 +0800 |
| Message-ID: |
| <5032F8FD.2020306@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
| Cc: |
| Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org> |
| Archive-link: |
| Article, Thread
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Changelog:
- fix endless retrying for unhandleable instruction which accesses on readonly
host memory
- divide slot->flags by 16:16, the lower part is visible for userspace, the
reset is internally used in kvm, and document this in the code
- check slot->flags for gfn_to_hva_memslot
The test case can be found at:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1207.2/008...
In current code, if we map a readonly memory space from host to guest
and the page is not currently mapped in the host, we will get a fault-pfn
and async is not allowed, then the vm will crash.
As Avi's suggestion, We introduce readonly memory region to map ROM/ROMD
to the guest, read access is happy for readonly memslot, write access on
readonly memslot will cause KVM_EXIT_MMIO exit.
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