On 10/04/2010 05:56 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
If guest can detect that it runs in non-preemptable context it can handle async PFs at any time, so let host know that it can send async PF even if guest cpu is not in userspace. MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_EN: 0x4b564d02 data: Bits 63-6 hold 64-byte aligned physical address of a 32bit memory - area which must be in guest RAM. Bits 5-1 are reserved and should be + area which must be in guest RAM. Bits 5-2 are reserved and should be zero. Bit 0 is 1 when asynchronous page faults are enabled on the vcpu - 0 when disabled. + 0 when disabled. Bit 2 is 1 if asynchronous page faults can be injected + when vcpu is in kernel mode.
Please use cpl instead of user mode and kernel mode. The original terms are ambiguous for cpl ==1 || cpl == 2.
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