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Message-ID: <51C1AB74.40503@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:00:36 +0800
From:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
CC:	gleb@...hat.com, avi.kivity@...il.com, mtosatti@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] KVM: MMU: document fast page fault in

On 06/19/2013 08:13 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 19/06/2013 11:09, Xiao Guangrong ha scritto:
>> Document fast page fault to Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 3 +++
>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
>> index 4fb442b..b5ce7dd 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
>> @@ -275,6 +275,9 @@ Handling a page fault is performed as follows:
>>     information is stored and cache the information to vcpu->arch.mmio_gva,
>>     vcpu->arch.access and vcpu->arch.mmio_gfn then call the emulator to emulate
>>     the instruction who will get the benefit from the cached mmio info
>> + - If both P bit and R/W bit of error code are set, there has a chance to
>> +   fast fix the page fault, please see the description of "Fast page fault" in
>> +   Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt

Nice.

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