From f7e614e01014c65a51d9f4145d83c7e63df4d939 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Avi Kivity Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:59:21 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 197814 b: refs/heads/master c: c4bd09b28907ca17cdb307c32bbcc9882c280feb h: refs/heads/master v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- trunk/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt | 10 +++++----- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 6fb2be792d1a..3497759522bd 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: b843f065481488fd1d1f4ff2179aaf4f300a1358 +refs/heads/master: c4bd09b28907ca17cdb307c32bbcc9882c280feb diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt b/trunk/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt index da046711362d..0cc28fb84f4f 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/trunk/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ direct mode; otherwise it operates in shadow mode (see below). Memory ====== -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. @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ is not related to a translation directly. It points to other shadow pages. 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 @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: 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. @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ the amount of emulation we have to do when the guest modifies multiple gptes, 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.