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author | Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-06-19 17:09:19 +0800 |
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committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2013-06-19 12:32:21 +0200 |
commit | 6c806a7332e6d36c1f95966b4a8a22f342b68948 (patch) | |
tree | 13d0a7f613114c47844a58d7a28dd8b628ee2ee4 /Documentation/virtual | |
parent | d8968f1f334c18bf65178b757a82864ef3f37613 (diff) | |
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KVM: MMU: update the documentation for reverse mapping of parent_pte
Update the document to match the current reverse mapping of
parent_pte
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index 43fcb761ed16..869abcc48315 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. 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 |