KVM: arm64: Document the behaviour of S1PTW faults on RO memslots
Although the KVM API says that a write to a RO memslot must result in a KVM_EXIT_MMIO describing the write, the arm64 architecture doesn't provide the *data* written by a Stage-1 page table walk (we only get the address). Since there isn't much userspace can do with so little information anyway, document the fact that such an access results in a guest exception, not an exit. This is consistent with the guest being terminally broken anyway. Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
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@ -1354,6 +1354,14 @@ the memory region are automatically reflected into the guest. For example, an
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mmap() that affects the region will be made visible immediately. Another
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example is madvise(MADV_DROP).
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Note: On arm64, a write generated by the page-table walker (to update
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the Access and Dirty flags, for example) never results in a
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KVM_EXIT_MMIO exit when the slot has the KVM_MEM_READONLY flag. This
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is because KVM cannot provide the data that would be written by the
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page-table walker, making it impossible to emulate the access.
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Instead, an abort (data abort if the cause of the page-table update
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was a load or a store, instruction abort if it was an instruction
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fetch) is injected in the guest.
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4.36 KVM_SET_TSS_ADDR
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