From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.k@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: level in kvm_mmu_page_role
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:02:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3A776D.4080902@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329168639.19232.3.camel@kernelDev>
On 02/13/2012 11:30 PM, Sanidhya Kashyap wrote:
> I have been going through the kvm code but didn't get the significance
> of level in kvm_mmu_page_role. So, it would be nice if anyone can
> explain it what is its use?
>
>
It's the page table level. Level 1 contains page table entries pointing
to 4k pages. Level 2 contains page directory entries pointing to level
1 page tables, or pointers to 2M pages, and so forth.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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2012-02-13 21:30 level in kvm_mmu_page_role Sanidhya Kashyap
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