Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] KVM: Documentation: Update the field name gfns and its description in kvm_mmu_page

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Jun 26 2023 - 17:50:20 EST


Hi--

On 6/26/23 11:20, Mingwei Zhang wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 9 +++++----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> index 561efa8ec7d7..4c9044b4dc6c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> @@ -221,11 +221,12 @@ 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
> + 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. 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.
> + this case, the array of shadowed_translation is not allocated. See

I cannot parse the before version nor the after version of this sentence (new version):

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 shadowed_translation is not allocated.


> + 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

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~Randy