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@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, Red Hat Inc, 2010
3===================================================== 3=====================================================
4 4
5KVM makes use of some custom MSRs to service some requests. 5KVM makes use of some custom MSRs to service some requests.
6At present, this facility is only used by kvmclock.
7 6
8Custom MSRs have a range reserved for them, that goes from 7Custom MSRs have a range reserved for them, that goes from
90x4b564d00 to 0x4b564dff. There are MSRs outside this area, 80x4b564d00 to 0x4b564dff. There are MSRs outside this area,
@@ -151,3 +150,38 @@ MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME: 0x12
151 return PRESENT; 150 return PRESENT;
152 } else 151 } else
153 return NON_PRESENT; 152 return NON_PRESENT;
153
154MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN: 0x4b564d02
155 data: Bits 63-6 hold 64-byte aligned physical address of a
156 64 byte memory area which must be in guest RAM and must be
157 zeroed. Bits 5-2 are reserved and should be zero. Bit 0 is 1
158 when asynchronous page faults are enabled on the vcpu 0 when
159 disabled. Bit 2 is 1 if asynchronous page faults can be injected
160 when vcpu is in cpl == 0.
161
162 First 4 byte of 64 byte memory location will be written to by
163 the hypervisor at the time of asynchronous page fault (APF)
164 injection to indicate type of asynchronous page fault. Value
165 of 1 means that the page referred to by the page fault is not
166 present. Value 2 means that the page is now available. Disabling
167 interrupt inhibits APFs. Guest must not enable interrupt
168 before the reason is read, or it may be overwritten by another
169 APF. Since APF uses the same exception vector as regular page
170 fault guest must reset the reason to 0 before it does
171 something that can generate normal page fault. If during page
172 fault APF reason is 0 it means that this is regular page
173 fault.
174
175 During delivery of type 1 APF cr2 contains a token that will
176 be used to notify a guest when missing page becomes
177 available. When page becomes available type 2 APF is sent with
178 cr2 set to the token associated with the page. There is special
179 kind of token 0xffffffff which tells vcpu that it should wake
180 up all processes waiting for APFs and no individual type 2 APFs
181 will be sent.
182
183 If APF is disabled while there are outstanding APFs, they will
184 not be delivered.
185
186 Currently type 2 APF will be always delivered on the same vcpu as
187 type 1 was, but guest should not rely on that.