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[34.105.13.176]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q23-20020a637517000000b0055b4307963dsm2001743pgc.23.2023.07.31.10.54.26 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:54:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:54:22 +0000 From: Mingwei Zhang To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Sean Christopherson , Paolo Bonzini , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kai Huang , Jim Mattson , David Matlack , Ben Gardon , Xu Yilun , Zhi Wang Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] KVM: Documentation: Update the field name gfns and its description in kvm_mmu_page Message-ID: References: <20230626182016.4127366-1-mizhang@google.com> <20230626182016.4127366-3-mizhang@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 26, 2023, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Hi-- > > On 6/26/23 11:20, Mingwei Zhang wrote: > > Update the field 'gfns' in kvm_mmu_page to 'shadowed_translation' to be > > consistent with the code. Also update the corresponding 'gfns' in the > > comments. The more detailed description of 'shadowed_translation' is > > already inlined in the data structure definition, so no need to duplicate > > the text but simply just update the names. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang > > Reviewed-by: Kai Huang > > --- > > Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 9 +++++---- > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst > > index 561efa8ec7d7..4c9044b4dc6c 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst > > +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst > > @@ -221,11 +221,12 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: > > at __pa(sp2->spt). sp2 will point back at sp1 through parent_pte. > > The spt array forms a DAG structure with the shadow page as a node, and > > 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. When role.direct is set, any > > + shadowed_translation: > > + An array of 512 shadow translation entries, one for each present pte. Used > > + to 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. > > + this case, the array of shadowed_translation is not allocated. See > > I cannot parse the before version nor the after version of this sentence (new version): > > 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 shadowed_translation is not allocated. > > Sorry for the late reply. Why is it not parsed? It just means that when role.direct is set, do not use gfns. The gfn can be calculated from the base address + offset. The base address here is the 'gfn' field in kvm_mmu_page. > > + role.direct and gfn. > > root_count: > > 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 > > -- > ~Randy