提交 67961344 编写于 作者: M Marcelo Tosatti 提交者: Avi Kivity

KVM: add doc note about PIO/MMIO completion API

Document that partially emulated instructions leave the guest state
inconsistent, and that the kernel will complete operations before
checking for pending signals.
Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
上级 1ef6ce7a
......@@ -820,6 +820,13 @@ executed a memory-mapped I/O instruction which could not be satisfied
by kvm. The 'data' member contains the written data if 'is_write' is
true, and should be filled by application code otherwise.
NOTE: For KVM_EXIT_IO and KVM_EXIT_MMIO, the corresponding operations
are complete (and guest state is consistent) only after userspace has
re-entered the kernel with KVM_RUN. The kernel side will first finish
incomplete operations and then check for pending signals. Userspace
can re-enter the guest with an unmasked signal pending to complete
pending operations.
/* KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL */
struct {
__u64 nr;
......
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