Re: [PATCH] KVM: mmu: allow page tables to be in read-only slots

Xiao Guangrong
2013-09-02T09:20:15Z

On 08/30/2013 08:41 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Page tables in a read-only memory slot will currently cause a triple
> fault because the page walker uses gfn_to_hva and it fails on such a slot.
>
> OVMF uses such a page table; however, real hardware seems to be fine with
> that as long as the accessed/dirty bits are set. Save whether the slot
> is readonly, and later check it when updating the accessed and dirty bits.

Paolo, do you know why OVMF is using readonly memory like this?

AFAIK, The fault trigged by this kind of access can hardly be fixed by
userspace since the fault is trigged by pagetable walking not by the current
instruction. Do you have any idea to let uerspace emulate it properly?