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authorGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>2010-10-14 11:22:55 +0200
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2011-01-12 11:23:21 +0200
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KVM: Let host know whether the guest can handle async PF in non-userspace context.
If guest can detect that it runs in non-preemptable context it can handle async PFs at any time, so let host know that it can send async PF even if guest cpu is not in userspace. Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt b/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt
index e67b4a8..d079aed 100644
--- a/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kvm/msr.txt
@@ -154,9 +154,10 @@ MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME: 0x12
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
+ 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.
+ 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)
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