Re: [PATCH 1/7] KVM: MMU: update the documentation for reverse mappingof parent_pte

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Jun 19 2013 - 06:33:26 EST


Il 19/06/2013 11:09, Xiao Guangrong ha scritto:
> Update the document to match the current reverse mapping of
> parent_pte
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
> index 43fcb76..869abcc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
> @@ -191,12 +191,12 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
> A counter keeping track of how many hardware registers (guest cr3 or
> pdptrs) are now pointing at the page. While this counter is nonzero, the
> page cannot be destroyed. See role.invalid.
> - multimapped:
> - Whether there exist multiple sptes pointing at this page.
> - parent_pte/parent_ptes:
> - If multimapped is zero, parent_pte points at the single spte that points at
> - this page's spt. Otherwise, parent_ptes points at a data structure
> - with a list of parent_ptes.
> + parent_ptes:
> + The reverse mapping for the pte/ptes pointing at this page's spt. If
> + parent_ptes bit 0 is zero, only one spte points at this pages and
> + parent_ptes points at this single spte, otherwise, there exists multiple
> + sptes pointing at this page and (parent_ptes & ~0x1) points at a data
> + structure with a list of parent_ptes.

Applying with this small change:

The reverse mapping for the pte/ptes pointing at this page's spt. If
bit 0 is zero, only one spte points at this pages and parent_ptes
points at this single spte. If bit 0 is set, there exist multiple
sptes pointing at this page and (parent_ptes & ~0x1) points at a data
structure with a list of parent_ptes.

Paolo

> unsync:
> If true, then the translations in this page may not match the guest's
> translation. This is equivalent to the state of the tlb when a pte is
>

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