From: "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@intel.com>
To: "pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>, "Christopherson,,
Sean" <seanjc@google.com>,
"mizhang@google.com" <mizhang@google.com>
Cc: "jmattson@google.com" <jmattson@google.com>,
"Xu, Yilun" <yilun.xu@intel.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for tdp_mmu_root_count into kvm_mmu_page
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:21:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a6fb38bb223516bdf3da0378dbfa89be8b62f6f.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230626182016.4127366-5-mizhang@google.com>
On Mon, 2023-06-26 at 18:20 +0000, Mingwei Zhang wrote:
> Add the description of tdp_mmu_root_count into kvm_mmu_page description.
> tdp_mmu_root_count is an atomic counter used only in TDP MMU. Its usage and
> meaning is slightly different with root_counter in shadow MMU. Update the
> doc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
> ---
> Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> index 5cd6cd5e8926..97d695207e11 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> @@ -231,6 +231,11 @@ 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.
> + tdp_mmu_root_count:
> + An atomic reference counter in TDP MMU root page that allows for parallel
> + accesses. Accessing the page requires lifting the counter value. The
> + initial value is set to 2 indicating one reference from vCPU and one
> + from TDP MMU itself. Note this field is a union with root_count.
> 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 page and
> --
> 2.41.0.162.gfafddb0af9-goog
>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-26 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-26 18:20 [PATCH v2 0/6] Update document description for kvm_mmu_page and kvm_mmu_page_role Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-26 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for guest_mode in kvm_mmu_page_role Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-26 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] KVM: Documentation: Update the field name gfns and its description in kvm_mmu_page Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-26 21:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2023-07-31 17:54 ` Mingwei Zhang
2023-07-31 18:24 ` Sean Christopherson
2023-07-31 18:59 ` Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-26 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for ptep " Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-26 21:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2023-06-26 22:20 ` Huang, Kai
2023-06-27 15:27 ` Sean Christopherson
2023-07-31 18:09 ` Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-26 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for tdp_mmu_root_count into kvm_mmu_page Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-26 22:21 ` Huang, Kai [this message]
2023-06-27 15:50 ` Sean Christopherson
2023-07-31 18:41 ` Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-26 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for mmu_valid_gen " Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-27 16:13 ` Sean Christopherson
2023-07-31 22:02 ` Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-26 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for tdp_mmu_page " Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-26 22:23 ` Huang, Kai
2023-06-27 16:16 ` Sean Christopherson
2023-07-31 22:28 ` Mingwei Zhang
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