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KVM: MMU: Document cr0.wp emulation
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Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[email protected]>
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- look up affected sptes through reverse map
- drop (or update) translations

Emulating cr0.wp
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If tdp is not enabled, the host must keep cr0.wp=1 so page write protection
works for the guest kernel, not guest guest userspace. When the guest
cr0.wp=1, this does not present a problem. However when the guest cr0.wp=0,
we cannot map the permissions for gpte.u=1, gpte.w=0 to any spte (the
semantics require allowing any guest kernel access plus user read access).

We handle this by mapping the permissions to two possible sptes, depending
on fault type:

- kernel write fault: spte.u=0, spte.w=1 (allows full kernel access,
disallows user access)
- read fault: spte.u=1, spte.w=0 (allows full read access, disallows kernel
write access)

(user write faults generate a #PF)

Further reading
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