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From: "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@intel.com>
To: "pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>, "Christopherson,,
	Sean" <seanjc@google.com>,
	"mizhang@google.com" <mizhang@google.com>
Cc: "jmattson@google.com" <jmattson@google.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"dmatlack@google.com" <dmatlack@google.com>,
	"bgardon@google.com" <bgardon@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing tdp_mmu_root_count into kvm_mmu_page
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2023 08:37:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1af0f4de320fd5ba96d63b7f0bdbbb061a7466f2.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230618000856.1714902-5-mizhang@google.com>

On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 00:08 +0000, Mingwei Zhang wrote:
> Add tdp_mmu_root_count into kvm_mmu_page description. tdp_mmu_root_count is
> an atomic counter used only in TDP MMU. Its usage and meaning is slightly
> different with root_counter in shadow MMU. Update the doc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> index 36bfe0fe02bb..3dce2426ad6d 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> @@ -230,6 +230,12 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
>      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
>      page cannot be destroyed.  See role.invalid.
> +  tdp_mmu_root_count:
> +    An atomic reference counter in TDP MMU that allows for parallel
					     ^
Please explicitly say "TDP MMU root page" ?
			
> +    accesses.  Accessing the page requires lifting the counter value. The
> +    initial value is set as 2 indicating one reference from vCPU and one
			    ^
			    to ?

> +    from TDP MMU itself. 
> 


> While this counter is nonzero, the page cannot be
> +    destroyed. 
> 

I guess this sentence is implied by "reference counter" mentioned in the first
sentence.

> Note this field is a union with root_count.
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-22  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-18  0:08 [PATCH 0/6] KVM: Documentation: Update document description for kvm_mmu_page and kvm_mmu_page_role Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-18  0:08 ` [PATCH 1/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing guest_mode in kvm_mmu_page_role Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-22  8:22   ` Huang, Kai
2023-06-18  0:08 ` [PATCH 2/6] KVM: Documentation: Update the field name gfns in kvm_mmu_page Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-22  8:22   ` Huang, Kai
2023-06-23  0:30   ` Xu Yilun
2023-06-23  0:55     ` Xu Yilun
2023-06-26 17:06     ` Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-18  0:08 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing ptep " Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-22  8:32   ` Huang, Kai
2023-06-26 17:29     ` Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-18  0:08 ` [PATCH 4/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing tdp_mmu_root_count into kvm_mmu_page Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-22  8:37   ` Huang, Kai [this message]
2023-06-26 17:55     ` Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-18  0:08 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing mmu_valid_gen " Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-22  8:42   ` Huang, Kai
2023-06-18  0:08 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing tdp_mmu_page " Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-22  8:40   ` Huang, Kai
2023-06-26 17:59     ` Mingwei Zhang
2023-06-19  9:00 ` [PATCH 0/6] KVM: Documentation: Update document description for kvm_mmu_page and kvm_mmu_page_role Zhi Wang
2023-06-21 18:33   ` Mingwei Zhang

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