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| author |   Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-08-21 11:02:51 +0800 |
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| committer |   Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2012-08-22 15:09:03 +0300 |
| commit | 4d8b81abc47b83a1939e59df2fdb0e98dfe0eedd (patch) | |
| tree | 47ea77cb4f77a2884a0478ecf84f62e32e5661ee /Documentation/virtual | |
| parent | KVM: introduce KVM_HVA_ERR_RO_BAD (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-4d8b81abc47b83a1939e59df2fdb0e98dfe0eedd.tar.xz linux-dev-4d8b81abc47b83a1939e59df2fdb0e98dfe0eedd.zip | |
KVM: introduce readonly memslot
In current code, if we map a readonly memory space from host to guest
and the page is not currently mapped in the host, we will get a fault
pfn and async is not allowed, then the vm will crash
We introduce readonly memory region to map ROM/ROMD to the guest, read access
is happy for readonly memslot, write access on readonly memslot will cause
KVM_EXIT_MMIO exit
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index bf33aaa4c59f..b91bfd43f007 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -857,7 +857,8 @@ struct kvm_userspace_memory_region { }; /* for kvm_memory_region::flags */ -#define KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES 1UL +#define KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES (1UL << 0) +#define KVM_MEM_READONLY (1UL << 1) This ioctl allows the user to create or modify a guest physical memory slot. When changing an existing slot, it may be moved in the guest @@ -873,9 +874,12 @@ It is recommended that the lower 21 bits of guest_phys_addr and userspace_addr be identical. This allows large pages in the guest to be backed by large pages in the host. -The flags field supports just one flag, KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES, which +The flags field supports two flag, KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES, which instructs kvm to keep track of writes to memory within the slot. See -the KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG ioctl. +the KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG ioctl. Another flag is KVM_MEM_READONLY when the +KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM capability, it indicates the guest memory is read-only, +that means, guest is only allowed to read it. Writes will be posted to +userspace as KVM_EXIT_MMIO exits. When the KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU capability, changes in the backing of the memory region are automatically reflected into the guest. For example, an mmap() |