diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst index 47392c5d0a4a..eb632a24fda1 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst @@ -221,11 +221,14 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: at __pa(sp2->spt). sp2 will point back at sp1 through parent_pte. The spt array forms a DAG structure with the shadow page as a node, and guest pages as leaves. - gfns: - An array of 512 guest frame numbers, one for each present pte. Used to - perform a reverse map from a pte to a gfn. When role.direct is set, any - element of this array can be calculated from the gfn field when used, in - this case, the array of gfns is not allocated. See role.direct and gfn. + shadowed_translation: + An array of 512 shadow translation entries, one for each present pte. Used + to perform a reverse map from a pte to a gfn as well as its access + permission. When role.direct is set, the shadow_translation array is not + allocated. This is because the gfn contained in any element of this array + can be calculated from the gfn field when used. In addition, when + role.direct is set, KVM does not track access permission for each of the + gfn. See role.direct and gfn. root_count: 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 |