From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: level in kvm_mmu_page_role Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:02:05 +0200 Message-ID: <4F3A776D.4080902@redhat.com> References: <1329168639.19232.3.camel@kernelDev> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Sanidhya Kashyap Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15762 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756596Ab2BNPS4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:18:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1329168639.19232.3.camel@kernelDev> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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