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authorMingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>2023-09-12 18:45:53 +0000
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2023-09-27 13:32:18 -0700
commit78b5605d44e65cb2e07181fcbcde8c76ad5b07b1 (patch)
tree809f56635bac2ed014c0ffec1c70e78ffc95d413 /Documentation/virt
parentc3204c406b6d4223022af26699bd3a5b71ba5fd8 (diff)
KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for tdp_mmu_page into kvm_mmu_page
Add the description for tdp_mmu_page into kvm_mmu_page description. tdp_mmu_page is a field to differentiate shadow pages from TDP MMU and non-TDP MMU. Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912184553.1887764-7-mizhang@google.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
index d04729c180da..2b3b6d442302 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
@@ -282,6 +282,10 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
since the last time the page table was actually used; if emulation
is triggered too frequently on this page, KVM will unmap the page
to avoid emulation in the future.
+ tdp_mmu_page:
+ Is 1 if the shadow page is a TDP MMU page. This variable is used to
+ bifurcate the control flows for KVM when walking any data structure that
+ may contain pages from both TDP MMU and shadow MMU.
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