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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>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
	Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing ptep in kvm_mmu_page
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:08:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230618000856.1714902-4-mizhang@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230618000856.1714902-1-mizhang@google.com>

Add the missing 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>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
index 149dd3cba48f..36bfe0fe02bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
@@ -236,6 +236,10 @@ 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:
+    Pointer to the parent spte when TDP MMU is enabled. In TDP MMU, each
+    shadow page will have at most one parent. Note that 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
-- 
2.41.0.162.gfafddb0af9-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-18  0:09 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 ` Mingwei Zhang [this message]
2023-06-22  8:32   ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing ptep " 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
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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