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The Hcall named H_SVM_* are reserved to the Ultravisor. However, nothing prevent a malicious VM or SVM to call them. This could lead to weird result and should be filtered out. Checking the Secure bit of the calling MSR ensure that the call is coming from either the Ultravisor or a SVM. But any system call made from a SVM are going through the Ultravisor, and the Ultravisor should filter out these malicious call. This way, only the Ultravisor is able to make such a Hcall. Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibnm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.