linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] KVM: Documentation: Update the field name gfns in kvm_mmu

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Date:   Thu, 22 Jun 2023 08:22:43 +0000
From:   "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@...el.com>
To:     "pbonzini@...hat.com" <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        "Christopherson,, Sean" <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        "mizhang@...gle.com" <mizhang@...gle.com>
CC:     "jmattson@...gle.com" <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "dmatlack@...gle.com" <dmatlack@...gle.com>,
        "bgardon@...gle.com" <bgardon@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] KVM: Documentation: Update the field name gfns in
 kvm_mmu_page

On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 00:08 +0000, Mingwei Zhang wrote:
> Update the 'gfns' in kvm_mmu_page to 'shadowed_translation'to be consistent
> with the code. 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 name.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@...gle.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> index 561efa8ec7d7..149dd3cba48f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
> @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ 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:
> +  shadowed_translation:
>      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
>      element of this array can be calculated from the gfn field when used, in

Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>