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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: __direct_map() questions
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:13:33 -0200
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Hi,

See Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt in the kernel source tree.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:41:41AM -0800, Nick H wrote:
> Hello All,
>=20
> I am preparing for a presentation for my community college, newbie to
> the kvm world. I am trying to understand kvm implementation. I am
> interested in doing a small presentation=A0 on kvm and its internals =
at
> my school. I am looking at __direct_map() . I see
> for_each_shadow_entry()->shadow_walk_xxx()=A0 (called in context of
> handle_ept_violation() ) functions using the gfn to find the
> iterator.sptep. It passes this iterator.sptep to the mmu_set_spte().