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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 11 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst index d5b08b4e8ff1..55d72383f6d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst @@ -229,10 +229,13 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: 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 - page cannot be destroyed. See role.invalid. + root_count / tdp_mmu_root_count: + root_count is a reference counter for root shadow pages in Shadow MMU. + vCPUs elevate the refcount when getting a shadow page that will be used as + a root page, i.e. page that will be loaded into hardware directly (CR3, + PDPTRs, nCR3 EPTP). Root pages cannot be destroyed while their refcount is + non-zero. See role.invalid. tdp_mmu_root_count is similar but exclusively + used in TDP MMU as an atomic refcount. parent_ptes: The reverse mapping for the pte/ptes pointing at this page's spt. If parent_ptes bit 0 is zero, only one spte points at this page and |