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authorGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>2010-10-14 11:22:50 +0200
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2011-01-12 11:23:12 +0200
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KVM: Add PV MSR to enable asynchronous page faults delivery.
Guest enables async PF vcpu functionality using this MSR. Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kvm')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kvm/cpuid.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kvm/msr.txt35
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/cpuid.txt b/Documentation/kvm/cpuid.txt
index 14a12ea..8820685 100644
--- a/Documentation/kvm/cpuid.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kvm/cpuid.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ KVM_FEATURE_MMU_OP || 2 || deprecated.
KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE2 || 3 || kvmclock available at msrs
|| || 0x4b564d00 and 0x4b564d01
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF || 4 || async pf can be enabled by
+ || || writing to msr 0x4b564d02
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
KVM_FEATURE_CLOCKSOURCE_STABLE_BIT || 24 || host will warn if no guest-side
|| || per-cpu warps are expected in
|| || kvmclock.
diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt
index 8ddcfe8..e67b4a8 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 +150,37 @@ 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 5-1 are reserved and should be zero. Bit 0 is 1
+ when asynchronous page faults are enabled on the vcpu 0 when
+ disabled.
+
+ 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.
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