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| author | Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com> | 2013-08-05 11:07:19 +0300 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2013-08-07 15:57:44 +0200 |
| commit | 2b1be677413b63e2464ec18b998524482eb42bcf (patch) | |
| tree | 15d6e467df94e57b405de3cf73091e172a7fa0f2 /arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | |
| parent | afa61f752ba62549e4143d9f9378a8d1d710d6eb (diff) | |
nEPT: Some additional comments
Some additional comments to preexisting code:
Explain who (L0 or L1) handles EPT violation and misconfiguration exits.
Don't mention "shadow on either EPT or shadow" as the only two options.
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Xinhao Xu <xinhao.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@Intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c index 5e084d6509c6..66af929bfb9d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c @@ -6669,7 +6669,20 @@ static bool nested_vmx_exit_handled(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) return nested_cpu_has2(vmcs12, SECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES); case EXIT_REASON_EPT_VIOLATION: + /* + * L0 always deals with the EPT violation. If nested EPT is + * used, and the nested mmu code discovers that the address is + * missing in the guest EPT table (EPT12), the EPT violation + * will be injected with nested_ept_inject_page_fault() + */ + return 0; case EXIT_REASON_EPT_MISCONFIG: + /* + * L2 never uses directly L1's EPT, but rather L0's own EPT + * table (shadow on EPT) or a merged EPT table that L0 built + * (EPT on EPT). So any problems with the structure of the + * table is L0's fault. + */ return 0; case EXIT_REASON_PREEMPTION_TIMER: return vmcs12->pin_based_vm_exec_control & |