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KVM: Minor MMU documentation edits
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Reported by Andrew Jones.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Avi Kivity committed May 17, 2010
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Memory
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Guest memory (gpa) is part of user address space of the process that is using
kvm. Userspace defines the translation between guest addresses and user
Guest memory (gpa) is part of the user address space of the process that is
using kvm. Userspace defines the translation between guest addresses and user
addresses (gpa->hva); note that two gpas may alias to the same gva, but not
vice versa.

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A leaf spte corresponds to either one or two translations encoded into
one paging structure entry. These are always the lowest level of the
translation stack, with an optional higher level translations left to NPT/EPT.
translation stack, with optional higher level translations left to NPT/EPT.
Leaf ptes point at guest pages.

The following table shows translations encoded by leaf ptes, with higher-level
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Either the guest page table containing the translations shadowed by this
page, or the base page frame for linear translations. See role.direct.
spt:
A pageful of 64-bit sptes containig the translations for this page.
A pageful of 64-bit sptes containing the translations for this page.
Accessed by both kvm and hardware.
The page pointed to by spt will have its page->private pointing back
at the shadow page structure.
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or when the a guest page is no longer used as a page table and is used for
random guest data.

As a side effect we have resynchronize all reachable unsynchronized shadow
As a side effect we have to resynchronize all reachable unsynchronized shadow
pages on a tlb flush.


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