Sean Christopherson 258d985f6e KVM: x86/mmu: Use EMULTYPE flag to track write #PFs to shadow pages ...

Use a new EMULTYPE flag, EMULTYPE_WRITE_PF_TO_SP, to track page faults
on self-changing writes to shadowed page tables instead of propagating
that information to the emulator via a semi-persistent vCPU flag.  Using
a flag in "struct kvm_vcpu_arch" is confusing, especially as implemented,
as it's not at all obvious that clearing the flag only when emulation
actually occurs is correct.

E.g. if KVM sets the flag and then retries the fault without ever getting
to the emulator, the flag will be left set for future calls into the
emulator.  But because the flag is consumed if and only if both
EMULTYPE_PF and EMULTYPE_ALLOW_RETRY_PF are set, and because
EMULTYPE_ALLOW_RETRY_PF is deliberately not set for direct MMUs, emulated
MMIO, or while L2 is active, KVM avoids false positives on a stale flag
since FNAME(page_fault) is guaranteed to be run and refresh the flag
before it's ultimately consumed by the tail end of reexecute_instruction().

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20230202182817.407394-2-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

2023-03-14 10:28:56 -04:00

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KVM: x86/mmu: Use EMULTYPE flag to track write #PFs to shadow pages

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KVM/riscv changes for 6.3

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