Re: [PATCH 2/6] KVM: Documentation: Update the field name gfns in kvm_mmu_page

Xu Yilun
2023-06-22T16:32:21Z

On 2023-06-18 at 00:08:52 +0000, Mingwei Zhang wrote:
> Update the 'gfns' in kvm_mmu_page to 'shadowed_translation'to be consistent
> with the code. 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 name.

The definition of this field is changed, but apprently the description
here is for gfns. It leaves some confusion if we just leave them
unchanged.

>
> Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
> ---
> Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> index 561efa8ec7d7..149dd3cba48f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ 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:
> + shadowed_translation:
> An array of 512 guest frame numbers, one for each present pte. Used to

guest frame numbers -> shadow translation info (gfn + access)

> perform a reverse map from a pte to a gfn. When role.direct is set, any

Just "perform reverse mapping" is OK?

> element of this array can be calculated from the gfn field when used, in

May remove the "of gfns"

Thanks,
Yilun

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