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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/msr.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/msr.rst index 9315fc385f..3aecf2a70e 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/msr.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/msr.rst @@ -193,8 +193,8 @@ data: Asynchronous page fault (APF) control MSR. Bits 63-6 hold 64-byte aligned physical address of a 64 byte memory area - which must be in guest RAM and must be zeroed. This memory is expected - to hold a copy of the following structure:: + which must be in guest RAM. This memory is expected to hold the + following structure:: struct kvm_vcpu_pv_apf_data { /* Used for 'page not present' events delivered via #PF */ @@ -204,7 +204,6 @@ data: __u32 token; __u8 pad[56]; - __u32 enabled; }; Bits 5-4 of the MSR are reserved and should be zero. Bit 0 is set to 1 @@ -232,14 +231,14 @@ data: as regular page fault, guest must reset 'flags' to '0' before it does something that can generate normal page fault. - Bytes 5-7 of 64 byte memory location ('token') will be written to by the + Bytes 4-7 of 64 byte memory location ('token') will be written to by the hypervisor at the time of APF 'page ready' event injection. The content - of these bytes is a token which was previously delivered as 'page not - present' event. The event indicates the page in now available. Guest is - supposed to write '0' to 'token' when it is done handling 'page ready' - event and to write 1' to MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_ACK after clearing the location; - writing to the MSR forces KVM to re-scan its queue and deliver the next - pending notification. + of these bytes is a token which was previously delivered in CR2 as + 'page not present' event. The event indicates the page is now available. + Guest is supposed to write '0' to 'token' when it is done handling + 'page ready' event and to write '1' to MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_ACK after + clearing the location; writing to the MSR forces KVM to re-scan its + queue and deliver the next pending notification. Note, MSR_KVM_ASYNC_PF_INT MSR specifying the interrupt vector for 'page ready' APF delivery needs to be written to before enabling APF mechanism |