Commit 686de182 authored by Alexander Graf's avatar Alexander Graf

KVM: Documentation: Fix reentry-to-be-consistent paragraph

All user space offloaded instruction emulation needs to reenter kvm
to produce consistent state again. Fix the section in the documentation
to mention all of them.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
parent e43a0287
...@@ -2183,7 +2183,8 @@ executed a memory-mapped I/O instruction which could not be satisfied ...@@ -2183,7 +2183,8 @@ 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 by kvm. The 'data' member contains the written data if 'is_write' is
true, and should be filled by application code otherwise. true, and should be filled by application code otherwise.
NOTE: For KVM_EXIT_IO, KVM_EXIT_MMIO and KVM_EXIT_OSI, the corresponding NOTE: For KVM_EXIT_IO, KVM_EXIT_MMIO, KVM_EXIT_OSI, KVM_EXIT_DCR
and KVM_EXIT_PAPR the corresponding
operations are complete (and guest state is consistent) only after userspace 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 has re-entered the kernel with KVM_RUN. The kernel side will first finish
incomplete operations and then check for pending signals. Userspace incomplete operations and then check for pending signals. Userspace
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