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From: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 08/13] nEPT: Some additional comments
Date: Mon,  6 May 2013 00:04:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1367823872-25895-8-git-send-email-jun.nakajima@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367823872-25895-7-git-send-email-jun.nakajima@intel.com>

Some additional comments to preexisting code:
Explain who (L0 or L1) handles EPT violation and misconfiguration exits.
Don't mention "shadow on either EPT or shadow" as the only two options.

Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xinhao Xu <xinhao.xu@intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
index d797d3e..419b9e3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
@@ -6127,7 +6127,20 @@ static bool nested_vmx_exit_handled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 		return nested_cpu_has2(vmcs12,
 			SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES);
 	case EXIT_REASON_EPT_VIOLATION:
+		/*
+		 * L0 always deals with the EPT violation. If nested EPT is
+		 * used, and the nested mmu code discovers that the address is
+		 * missing in the guest EPT table (EPT12), the EPT violation
+		 * will be injected with nested_ept_inject_page_fault()
+		 */
+		return 0;
 	case EXIT_REASON_EPT_MISCONFIG:
+		/*
+		 * L2 never uses directly L1's EPT, but rather L0's own EPT
+		 * table (shadow on EPT) or a merged EPT table that L0 built
+		 * (EPT on EPT). So any problems with the structure of the
+		 * table is L0's fault.
+		 */
 		return 0;
 	case EXIT_REASON_WBINVD:
 		return nested_cpu_has2(vmcs12, SECONDARY_EXEC_WBINVD_EXITING);
-- 
1.8.1.2


  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-06  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-06  7:04 [PATCH v2 01/13] nEPT: Support LOAD_IA32_EFER entry/exit controls for L1 Jun Nakajima
2013-05-06  7:04 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] nEPT: Move gpte_access() and prefetch_invalid_gpte() to paging_tmpl.h Jun Nakajima
2013-05-06  7:04   ` [PATCH v2 03/13] nEPT: Add EPT tables support " Jun Nakajima
2013-05-06  7:04     ` [PATCH v2 04/13] nEPT: Define EPT-specific link_shadow_page() Jun Nakajima
2013-05-06  7:04       ` [PATCH v2 05/13] nEPT: MMU context for nested EPT Jun Nakajima
2013-05-06  7:04         ` [PATCH v2 06/13] nEPT: Fix cr3 handling in nested exit and entry Jun Nakajima
2013-05-06  7:04           ` [PATCH v2 07/13] nEPT: Fix wrong test in kvm_set_cr3 Jun Nakajima
2013-05-06  7:04             ` Jun Nakajima [this message]
2013-05-06  7:04               ` [PATCH v2 09/13] nEPT: Advertise EPT to L1 Jun Nakajima
2013-05-06  7:04                 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] nEPT: Nested INVEPT Jun Nakajima
2013-05-06  7:04                   ` [PATCH v2 11/13] nEPT: Miscelleneous cleanups Jun Nakajima
2013-05-06  7:04                     ` [PATCH v2 12/13] nEPT: Move is_rsvd_bits_set() to paging_tmpl.h Jun Nakajima
2013-05-06  7:04                       ` [PATCH v2 13/13] nEPT: Inject EPT violation/misconfigration Jun Nakajima
2013-05-06  7:13 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] nEPT: Support LOAD_IA32_EFER entry/exit controls for L1 Jan Kiszka

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