[PATCH v3 3/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for ptep in kvm_mmu_page

Mingwei Zhang posted 6 patches 2 years, 6 months ago
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[PATCH v3 3/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for ptep in kvm_mmu_page
Posted by Mingwei Zhang 2 years, 6 months ago
Add the missing description for ptep in kvm_mmu_page description. ptep is
used when TDP MMU is enabled and it shares the storage with parent_ptes.
Update the doc to help readers to get up-to-date info.

Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
index 35e642303962..17d90974204e 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
@@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
     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 sptes.
+  ptep:
+    The kernel virtual address of the SPTE that points at this shadow page.
+    Used exclusively by the TDP MMU, this field is a union with 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
-- 
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