From: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
To: "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>, "Christopherson,,
Sean" <seanjc@google.com>,
"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: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:55:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZJnQ9w5deFHhElu9@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1af0f4de320fd5ba96d63b7f0bdbbb061a7466f2.camel@intel.com>
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, Huang, Kai wrote:
> 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.
>
Will make the changes in next version.
-Mingwei
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-26 17:55 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
2023-06-26 17:55 ` Mingwei Zhang [this message]
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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