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s390/mm: shadow pages with real guest requested protection

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We really want to avoid manually handling protection for nested
virtualization. By shadowing pages with the protection the guest asked us
for, the SIE can handle most protection-related actions for us (e.g.
special handling for MVPG) and we can directly forward protection
exceptions to the guest.

PTEs will now always be shadowed with the correct _PAGE_PROTECT flag.
Unshadowing will take care of any guest changes to the parent PTE and
any host changes to the host PTE. If the host PTE doesn't have the
fitting access rights or is not available, we have to fix it up.

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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David Hildenbrand
2016-03-08 12:21:41 +01:00
committed by Christian Borntraeger
parent eea3678d43
commit a9d23e71d7
5 changed files with 15 additions and 20 deletions
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@@ -895,7 +895,7 @@ void ptep_zap_unused(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
pte_t *ptep , int reset);
void ptep_zap_key(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep);
int ptep_shadow_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long saddr,
pte_t *sptep, pte_t *tptep, int write);
pte_t *sptep, pte_t *tptep, pte_t pte);
void ptep_unshadow_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long saddr, pte_t *ptep);
bool test_and_clear_guest_dirty(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address);