KVM was switched to interrupt-based mechanism for 'page ready' event
delivery in Linux-5.8 (see commit 2635b5c4a0e4 ("KVM: x86: interrupt based
APF 'page ready' event delivery")) and #PF (ab)use for 'page ready' event
delivery was removed. Linux guest switched to this new mechanism
exclusively in 5.9 (see commit b1d405751cd5 ("KVM: x86: Switch KVM guest to
using interrupts for page ready APF delivery")) so it is not possible to
get older KVM (APF mechanism won't be enabled). Update the comment in
exc_page_fault() to reflect the new reality.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 6e3e8a124903..3cf77592ac54 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -1446,11 +1446,14 @@ DEFINE_IDTENTRY_RAW_ERRORCODE(exc_page_fault)
prefetchw(¤t->mm->mmap_lock);
/*
- * KVM has two types of events that are, logically, interrupts, but
- * are unfortunately delivered using the #PF vector. These events are
- * "you just accessed valid memory, but the host doesn't have it right
- * now, so I'll put you to sleep if you continue" and "that memory
- * you tried to access earlier is available now."
+ * KVM uses #PF vector to deliver 'page not present' events to guests
+ * (asynchronous page fault mechanism). The event happens when a
+ * userspace task is trying to access some valid (from guest's point of
+ * view) memory which is not currently mapped by the host (e.g. the
+ * memory is swapped out). Note, the corresponding "page ready" event
+ * which is injected when the memory becomes available, is delived via
+ * an interrupt mechanism and not a #PF exception
+ * (see arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c: sysvec_kvm_asyncpf_interrupt()).
*
* We are relying on the interrupted context being sane (valid RSP,
* relevant locks not held, etc.), which is fine as long as the
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2.25.4
