summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Documentation/virtual
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
index 869abcc48315..f514a3fad9b9 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
@@ -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.
Reverse map
===========