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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index 43fcb761ed16..869abcc48315 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -191,12 +191,12 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: A counter keeping track of how many hardware registers (guest cr3 or pdptrs) are now pointing at the page. While this counter is nonzero, the page cannot be destroyed. See role.invalid. - multimapped: - Whether there exist multiple sptes pointing at this page. - parent_pte/parent_ptes: - If multimapped is zero, parent_pte points at the single spte that points at - this page's spt. Otherwise, parent_ptes points at a data structure - with a list of parent_ptes. + parent_ptes: + The reverse mapping for the pte/ptes pointing at this page's spt. If + parent_ptes bit 0 is zero, only one spte points at this pages and + 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_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 |