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authorXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-06-19 17:09:20 +0800
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KVM: MMU: document clear_spte_count
Document it to Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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@@ -210,6 +210,11 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
A bitmap indicating which sptes in spt point (directly or indirectly) at
pages that may be unsynchronized. Used to quickly locate all unsychronized
pages reachable from a given page.
+ clear_spte_count:
+ Only present on 32-bit hosts, where a 64-bit spte cannot be written
+ atomically. The reader uses this while running out of the MMU lock
+ to detect in-progress updates and retry them until the writer has
+ finished the write.
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