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KVM: MMU: Document cr0.wp emulation
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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@ -298,6 +298,25 @@ Host translation updates:
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- look up affected sptes through reverse map
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- drop (or update) translations
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Emulating cr0.wp
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If tdp is not enabled, the host must keep cr0.wp=1 so page write protection
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works for the guest kernel, not guest guest userspace. When the guest
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cr0.wp=1, this does not present a problem. However when the guest cr0.wp=0,
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we cannot map the permissions for gpte.u=1, gpte.w=0 to any spte (the
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semantics require allowing any guest kernel access plus user read access).
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We handle this by mapping the permissions to two possible sptes, depending
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on fault type:
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- kernel write fault: spte.u=0, spte.w=1 (allows full kernel access,
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disallows user access)
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- read fault: spte.u=1, spte.w=0 (allows full read access, disallows kernel
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write access)
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(user write faults generate a #PF)
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Further reading
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