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Allow mapping KVM's internal memslots used for EPT without unrestricted guest into L2, i.e. allow mapping the hidden TSS and the identity mapped page tables into L2. Unlike the APIC access page, there is no correctness issue with letting L2 access the "hidden" memory. Allowing these memslots to be mapped into L2 fixes a largely theoretical bug where KVM could incorrectly emulate subsequent _L1_ accesses as MMIO, and also ensures consistent KVM behavior for L2. If KVM is using TDP, but L1 is using shadow paging for L2, then routing through kvm_handle_noslot_fault() will incorrectly cache the gfn as MMIO, and create an MMIO SPTE. Creating an MMIO SPTE is ok, but only because kvm_mmu_page_role.guest_mode ensure KVM uses different roots for L1 vs. L2. But vcpu->arch.mmio_gfn will remain valid, and could cause KVM to incorrectly treat an L1 access to the hidden TSS or identity mapped page tables as MMIO. Furthermore, forcing L2 accesses to be treated as "no slot" faults doesn't actually prevent exposing KVM's internal memslots to L2, it simply forces KVM to emulate the access. In most cases, that will trigger MMIO, amusingly due to filling vcpu->arch.mmio_gfn, but also because vcpu_is_mmio_gpa() unconditionally treats APIC accesses as MMIO, i.e. APIC accesses are ok. But the hidden TSS and identity mapped page tables could go either way (MMIO or access the private memslot's backing memory). Alternatively, the inconsistent emulator behavior could be addressed by forcing MMIO emulation for L2 access to all internal memslots, not just to the APIC. But that's arguably less correct than letting L2 access the hidden TSS and identity mapped page tables, not to mention that it's *extremely* unlikely anyone cares what KVM does in this case. From L1's perspective there is R/W memory at those memslots, the memory just happens to be initialized with non-zero data. Making the memory disappear when it is accessed by L2 is far more magical and arbitrary than the memory existing in the first place. The APIC access page is special because KVM _must_ emulate the access to do the right thing (emulate an APIC access instead of reading/writing the APIC access page). And despite what commit |
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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 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.