kvm_mips_bu...ll_exception(9)

✨ kvm_mips_build_tlb_refill_exception(9) ✨

okay bestie, so this page is literally called kvm_mips_bu...ll_exception(9) (yes the title is truncated with the ..., that's just how it is, no cap) and it lives in the Kernel API Manual 💅 — the kernel API manual, iykyk. It's all about building the TLB refill handler, and honestly? iconic.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

kvm_mips_build_tlb_refill_exception — assemble TLB refill handler 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void * kvm_mips_build_tlb_refill_exception (void *addr , void *handler
);

like... look at that signature. so clean. 💖

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⭐ ARGUMENTS ⭐

• addr — the address where you start writing code. that's the spot, bestie, that's where the pen goes 🖊️✨
• handler — the address of the common handler, and heads up: it's gotta be within range of addr. not just vibes-adjacent, actually within range 🙈

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

It assembles the TLB refill exception fast path handler for guest execution 🏃‍♀️💨. Like, that's the whole thing. It builds it. For the guest. Fast path. periodt.

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

Returns the next address after the end of the written function — so you know exactly where the function stops, which is very main character of it 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Bestie, check out the kernel file ./arch/mips/kvm/entry.c — it's giving source-of-truth energy:

• kvm_mips_entry_setup(9)
• build_set_exc_base(9)
• kvm_mips_build_vcpu_run(9)
• kvm_mips_build_enter_guest(9)
• kvm_mips_build_exception(9)
• kvm_mips_build_exit(9)
• kvm_mips_build_ret_from_exit(9)
• kvm_mips_build_ret_to_guest(9)
• kvm_mips_build_ret_to_host(9)

all nine, listed, nothing skipped, we love a complete reference list 💅✨

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ok that's the whole page, go build your handler 💖

and finally, the cute little sign-off corner: this one's from ./arch/mips/kvm, dated October 2026, and the page itself is kvm_mips_bu...ll_exception(9) 🎀 bye bestie, slay your exceptions 🦋