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A recent development on the EFI front has resulted in guests having their page tables baked in the firmware binary, and mapped into the IPA space as part of a read-only memslot. Not only is this legitimate, but it also results in added security, so thumbs up. It is possible to take an S1PTW translation fault if the S1 PTs are unmapped at stage-2. However, KVM unconditionally treats S1PTW as a write to correctly handle hardware AF/DB updates to the S1 PTs. Furthermore, KVM injects an exception into the guest for S1PTW writes. In the aforementioned case this results in the guest taking an abort it won't recover from, as the S1 PTs mapping the vectors suffer from the same problem. So clearly our handling is... wrong. Instead, switch to a two-pronged approach: - On S1PTW translation fault, handle the fault as a read - On S1PTW permission fault, handle the fault as a write This is of no consequence to SW that *writes* to its PTs (the write will trigger a non-S1PTW fault), and SW that uses RO PTs will not use HW-assisted AF/DB anyway, as that'd be wrong. Only in the case described in |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.