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@@ -202,6 +202,10 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
Is 1 if the MMU instance cannot use A/D bits. EPT did not have A/D
bits before Haswell; shadow EPT page tables also cannot use A/D bits
if the L1 hypervisor does not enable them.
+ role.passthrough:
+ The page is not backed by a guest page table, but its first entry
+ points to one. This is set if NPT uses 5-level page tables (host
+ CR4.LA57=1) and is shadowing L1's 4-level NPT (L1 CR4.LA57=1).
gfn:
Either the guest page table containing the translations shadowed by this
page, or the base page frame for linear translations. See role.direct.