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For hardware-protected VMs like SEV-SNP guests, certain conditions like attempting to perform a write to a page which is not in the state that the guest expects it to be in can result in a nested/extended #PF which can only be satisfied by the host performing an implicit page state change to transition the page into the expected shared/private state. This is generally handled by generating a KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT event that gets forwarded to userspace to handle via KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES. However, the fast_page_fault() code might misconstrue this situation as being the result of a write-protected access, and treat it as a spurious case when it sees that writes are already allowed for the sPTE. This results in the KVM MMU trying to resume the guest rather than taking any action to satisfy the real source of the #PF such as generating a KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT, resulting in the guest spinning on nested #PFs. Check for this condition and bail out of the fast path if it is detected. Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Cc: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.