[PATCH v4 1/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for guest_mode in kvm_mmu_page_role

From: Mingwei Zhang
Date: Tue Sep 12 2023 - 14:46:03 EST


Add the missing description for guest_mode in kvm_mmu_page_role
description. guest_mode tells KVM whether a shadow page is used for the L1
or an L2. Update the missing field in documentation.

Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
index 26f62034b6f3..23c20455d4e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
@@ -202,6 +202,8 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
Is 1 if the MMU instance cannot use A/D bits. EPT did not have A/D
bits before Haswell; shadow EPT page tables also cannot use A/D bits
if the L1 hypervisor does not enable them.
+ role.guest_mode:
+ Indicates the shadow page is created for a nested guest.
role.passthrough:
The page is not backed by a guest page table, but its first entry
points to one. This is set if NPT uses 5-level page tables (host
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