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[v4,2/6] KVM: Documentation: Update the field name gfns and its description in kvm_mmu_page

Message ID 20230912184553.1887764-3-mizhang@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Update document description for kvm_mmu_page and kvm_mmu_page_role | expand

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Mingwei Zhang Sept. 12, 2023, 6:45 p.m. UTC 
Update the field 'gfns' in kvm_mmu_page to 'shadowed_translation' to be
consistent with the code. Also update the corresponding 'gfns' in the
comments. The more detailed description of 'shadowed_translation' is
already inlined in the data structure definition, so no need to duplicate
the text but simply just update the names.

Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
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 Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
index 23c20455d4e7..f659f282357d 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