Re: [PATCH 6/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing tdp_mmu_page into kvm_mmu_page

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On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 00:08 +0000, Mingwei Zhang wrote:
> Add tdp_mmu_page into kvm_mmu_page description. tdp_mmu_page is a field to
> differentiate shadow pages from TDP MMU and non-TDP MMU. When TDP MMU is
> enabled, sp->tdp_mmu_page=1 indicates a shadow page for L1, while
> sp->tdp_mmu_page=0 indicates a shadow page for an L2. When TDP MMU is
> disabled, sp->tdp_mmu_page is always 0. So update the doc to reflect the
> information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> index 0dbdb7fb8cc6..cbad49c37629 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> @@ -277,6 +277,10 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
>      since the last time the page table was actually used; if emulation
>      is triggered too frequently on this page, KVM will unmap the page
>      to avoid emulation in the future.
> +  tdp_mmu_page:
> +    Is 1 if the shadow page is a TDP MMU page. When TDP MMU is disabled,
> +    this field is always 0.
> +
> 

Hmm.. Again I think "TDP MMU is disabled" is a little bit confusing, but maybe
it's only me having this impression.

I think you can just delete the second sentence.




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