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From: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>,
	Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
	Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>, Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@intel.com>,
	Zhi Wang <zhi.wang.linux@gmail.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for ptep in kvm_mmu_page
Date: Tue,  1 Aug 2023 00:21:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230801002127.534020-4-mizhang@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230801002127.534020-1-mizhang@google.com>

Add the missing description for ptep in kvm_mmu_page description. ptep is
used when TDP MMU is enabled and it shares the storage with parent_ptes.
Update the doc to help readers to get up-to-date info.

Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
index 35e642303962..17d90974204e 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
@@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
     parent_ptes points at this single spte, otherwise, there exists multiple
     sptes pointing at this page and (parent_ptes & ~0x1) points at a data
     structure with a list of parent sptes.
+  ptep:
+    The kernel virtual address of the SPTE that points at this shadow page.
+    Used exclusively by the TDP MMU, this field is a union with parent_ptes.
   unsync:
     If true, then the translations in this page may not match the guest's
     translation.  This is equivalent to the state of the tlb when a pte is
-- 
2.41.0.585.gd2178a4bd4-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-01  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-01  0:21 [PATCH v3 0/6] Update document description for kvm_mmu_page and kvm_mmu_page_role Mingwei Zhang
2023-08-01  0:21 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for guest_mode in kvm_mmu_page_role Mingwei Zhang
2023-08-01  0:21 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] KVM: Documentation: Update the field name gfns and its description in kvm_mmu_page Mingwei Zhang
2023-08-01  0:21 ` Mingwei Zhang [this message]
2023-08-01  0:21 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for tdp_mmu_root_count into kvm_mmu_page Mingwei Zhang
2023-08-16 22:46   ` Sean Christopherson
2023-09-12 18:24     ` Mingwei Zhang
2023-08-01  0:21 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for mmu_valid_gen " Mingwei Zhang
2023-08-16 22:40   ` Sean Christopherson
2023-09-12 18:37     ` Mingwei Zhang
2023-08-01  0:21 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for tdp_mmu_page " Mingwei Zhang

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