Include the note about memory ordering when clearing bits in userfault_bitmap, as it may not be obvious for users. Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index ff0aa9eb91efe..25668206a5d80 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -6308,7 +6308,8 @@ bounds checks apply (use common sense). __u64 guest_memfd_offset; __u32 guest_memfd; __u32 pad1; - __u64 pad2[14]; + __u64 userfault_bitmap; + __u64 pad2[13]; }; A KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD region _must_ have a valid guest_memfd (private memory) and @@ -6324,6 +6325,25 @@ state. At VM creation time, all memory is shared, i.e. the PRIVATE attribute is '0' for all gfns. Userspace can control whether memory is shared/private by toggling KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE via KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES as needed. +When the KVM_MEM_USERFAULT flag is set, userfault_bitmap points to the starting +address for the bitmap that controls if vCPU memory faults should immediately +exit to userspace. If an invalid pointer is provided, at fault time, KVM_RUN +will return -EFAULT. KVM_MEM_USERFAULT is only supported when +KVM_CAP_USERFAULT is supported. + +userfault_bitmap should point to an array of longs where each bit in the array +linearly corresponds to a single gfn. Bit 0 in userfault_bitmap corresponds to +guest_phys_addr, bit 1 corresponds to guest_phys_addr + PAGE_SIZE, etc. If the +bit for a page is set, any vCPU access to that page will exit to userspace with +KVM_MEMORY_EXIT_FLAG_USERFAULT. + +Setting bits in userfault_bitmap has no effect on pages that have already been +mapped by KVM until KVM_MEM_USERFAULT is disabled and re-enabled again. + +Clearing bits in userfault_bitmap should usually be done with a store-release +if changes to guest memory are being made available to the guest via +userfault_bitmap. + S390: ^^^^^ @@ -8557,6 +8577,17 @@ given VM. When this capability is enabled, KVM resets the VCPU when setting MP_STATE_INIT_RECEIVED through IOCTL. The original MP_STATE is preserved. +7.44 KVM_CAP_USERFAULT +---------------------- + +:Architectures: x86, arm64 +:Returns: Informational only, -EINVAL on direct KVM_ENABLE_CAP. + +The presence of this capability indicates that KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 will +accept KVM_MEM_USERFAULT as a valid memslot flag. + +See KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 for more details. + 8. Other capabilities. ====================== -- 2.50.0.rc2.692.g299adb8693-goog
