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* [PATCH] kvm: update document of gfns
@ 2010-05-07  8:47 Lai Jiangshan
  2010-05-10  8:49 ` Avi Kivity
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lai Jiangshan @ 2010-05-07  8:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Avi Kivity, Marcelo Tosatti, LKML, kvm


When don't use ->gfns when role.direct=1, update document for it.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Requested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
---
diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt
index da04671..aec19ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt
@@ -178,7 +178,9 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
     guest pages as leaves.
   gfns:
     An array of 512 guest frame numbers, one for each present pte.  Used to
-    perform a reverse map from a pte to a gfn.
+    perform a reverse map from a pte to a gfn. When role.direct is set, any
+    element of this array can be calculated from the gfn field when used, in
+    this case, the array of gfns is not allocated. See role.direct and gfn.
   slot_bitmap:
     A bitmap containing one bit per memory slot.  If the page contains a pte
     mapping a page from memory slot n, then bit n of slot_bitmap will be set

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* Re: [PATCH] kvm: update document of gfns
  2010-05-07  8:47 [PATCH] kvm: update document of gfns Lai Jiangshan
@ 2010-05-10  8:49 ` Avi Kivity
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Avi Kivity @ 2010-05-10  8:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Lai Jiangshan; +Cc: Marcelo Tosatti, LKML, kvm

On 05/07/2010 11:47 AM, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> When don't use ->gfns when role.direct=1, update document for it.
>
>    


Please fold into the patch that does the change.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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