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When SEV-SNP is enabled in the guest, the hardware places restrictions on all memory accesses based on the contents of the RMP table. When hardware encounters RMP check failure caused by the guest memory access it raises the #NPF. The error code contains additional information on the access type. See the APM volume 2 for additional information. When using gmem, RMP faults resulting from mismatches between the state in the RMP table vs. what the guest expects via its page table result in KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULTs being forwarded to userspace to handle. This means the only expected case that needs to be handled in the kernel is when the page size of the entry in the RMP table is larger than the mapping in the nested page table, in which case a PSMASH instruction needs to be issued to split the large RMP entry into individual 4K entries so that subsequent accesses can succeed. Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com> Co-developed-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com> Message-ID: <20240501085210.2213060-12-michael.roth@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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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 reStructuredText 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.