Allows setting an eventfd to directly trigger a guest interrupt.
kvm_irqfd.fd specifies the file descriptor to use as the eventfd and
kvm_irqfd.gsi specifies the irqchip pin toggled by this event. When
-an event is tiggered on the eventfd, an interrupt is injected into
+an event is triggered on the eventfd, an interrupt is injected into
the guest using the specified gsi pin. The irqfd is removed using
the KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_DEASSIGN flag, specifying both kvm_irqfd.fd
and kvm_irqfd.gsi.
additional eventfd in the kvm_irqfd.resamplefd field. When operating
in resample mode, posting of an interrupt through kvm_irq.fd asserts
the specified gsi in the irqchip. When the irqchip is resampled, such
-as from an EOI, the gsi is de-asserted and the user is notifed via
+as from an EOI, the gsi is de-asserted and the user is notified via
kvm_irqfd.resamplefd. It is the user's responsibility to re-queue
the interrupt if the device making use of it still requires service.
Note that closing the resamplefd is not sufficient to disable the
kernel mode for an event to occur (ex: a spinlock to become available) can
execute HLT instruction once it has busy-waited for more than a threshold
time-interval. Execution of HLT instruction would cause the hypervisor to put
-the vcpu to sleep until occurence of an appropriate event. Another vcpu of the
+the vcpu to sleep until occurrence of an appropriate event. Another vcpu of the
same guest can wakeup the sleeping vcpu by issuing KVM_HC_KICK_CPU hypercall,
specifying APIC ID (a1) of the vcpu to be woken up. An additional argument (a0)
is used in the hypercall for future use.
In order to avoid this kind of issue, we always treat the spte as "volatile"
if it can be updated out of mmu-lock, see spte_has_volatile_bits(), it means,
-the spte is always atomicly updated in this case.
+the spte is always atomically updated in this case.
3): flush tlbs due to spte updated
If the spte is updated from writable to readonly, we should flush all TLBs,
function to update spte (present -> present).
Since the spte is "volatile" if it can be updated out of mmu-lock, we always
-atomicly update the spte, the race caused by fast page fault can be avoided,
+atomically update the spte, the race caused by fast page fault can be avoided,
See the comments in spte_has_volatile_bits() and mmu_spte_update().
3. Reference
Patched instructions
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-The "ld" and "std" instructions are transormed to "lwz" and "stw" instructions
+The "ld" and "std" instructions are transformed to "lwz" and "stw" instructions
respectively on 32 bit systems with an added offset of 4 to accommodate for big
endianness.
of machine interrupts and the associated clock sources are no longer completely
synchronized with real time.
-This same problem can occur on native harware to a degree, as SMM mode may
+This same problem can occur on native hardware to a degree, as SMM mode may
steal cycles from the naturally on X86 systems when SMM mode is used by the
BIOS, but not in such an extreme fashion. However, the fact that SMM mode may
cause similar problems to virtualization makes it a good justification for