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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst index 5bfe28b0728e..f60f5488e121 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/mmu.rst @@ -171,8 +171,8 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: shadow pages) so role.quadrant takes values in the range 0..3. Each quadrant maps 1GB virtual address space. role.access: - Inherited guest access permissions in the form uwx. Note execute - permission is positive, not negative. + Inherited guest access permissions from the parent ptes in the form uwx. + Note execute permission is positive, not negative. role.invalid: The page is invalid and should not be used. It is a root page that is currently pinned (by a cpu hardware register pointing to it); once it is @@ -180,8 +180,8 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: role.gpte_is_8_bytes: Reflects the size of the guest PTE for which the page is valid, i.e. '1' if 64-bit gptes are in use, '0' if 32-bit gptes are in use. - role.nxe: - Contains the value of efer.nxe for which the page is valid. + role.efer_nx: + Contains the value of efer.nx for which the page is valid. role.cr0_wp: Contains the value of cr0.wp for which the page is valid. role.smep_andnot_wp: @@ -192,9 +192,6 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: Contains the value of cr4.smap && !cr0.wp for which the page is valid (pages for which this is true are different from other pages; see the treatment of cr0.wp=0 below). - role.ept_sp: - This is a virtual flag to denote a shadowed nested EPT page. ept_sp - is true if "cr0_wp && smap_andnot_wp", an otherwise invalid combination. role.smm: Is 1 if the page is valid in system management mode. This field determines which of the kvm_memslots array was used to build this |