linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 6/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for tdp_mmu_page into kvm_mmu

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Message-ID: <20230912184553.1887764-7-mizhang@google.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:45:53 +0000
From:   Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@...gle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@...gle.com>,
        Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>,
        Ben Gardon <bgardon@...gle.com>, Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@...el.com>,
        Zhi Wang <zhi.wang.linux@...il.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 6/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for
 tdp_mmu_page into kvm_mmu_page

Add the description for 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.

Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>
---
 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 16d5d6a1c174..82c5c6a6da2c 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
@@ -282,6 +282,10 @@ 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. This variable is used to
+    bifurcate the control flows for KVM when walking any data structure that may
+    contain pages from both TDP MMU and shadow MMU.
 
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