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From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: gleb@redhat.com
Cc: avi.kivity@gmail.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/7] KVM: MMU: update the documentation for reverse mapping of parent_pte
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:09:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1371632965-20077-2-git-send-email-xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371632965-20077-1-git-send-email-xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Update the document to match the current reverse mapping of
parent_pte

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 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.
   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
-- 
1.8.1.4


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-19  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-19  9:09 [PATCH 0/7] KVM: MMU: update mmu documentation Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19  9:09 ` Xiao Guangrong [this message]
2013-06-19 10:32   ` [PATCH 1/7] KVM: MMU: update the documentation for reverse mapping of parent_pte Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19  9:09 ` [PATCH 2/7] KVM: MMU: document clear_spte_count Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19 11:32   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19 11:53     ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19 11:55       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19 12:25         ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19 12:41           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19 13:29             ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19 11:40   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19 12:39     ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19  9:09 ` [PATCH 3/7] KVM: MMU: document write_flooding_count Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19 11:58   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19 12:43     ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19  9:09 ` [PATCH 4/7] KVM: MMU: document mmio page fault Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19 12:10   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19 12:59     ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19  9:09 ` [PATCH 5/7] KVM: MMU: document fast page fault in Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19 12:13   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19 13:00     ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19  9:09 ` [PATCH 6/7] KVM: MMU: document fast invalidate all pages Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19 12:25   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19 13:07     ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19  9:09 ` [PATCH 7/7] KVM: MMU: document fast invalidate all mmio sptes Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-19 12:35   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19 13:10     ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-06-20  5:21   ` Rob Landley
2013-06-20  8:19     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19 17:41 ` [PATCH 0/7] KVM: MMU: update mmu documentation Paolo Bonzini

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