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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index f365102c80f5..2efe0efc516e 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: If clear, this page corresponds to a guest page table denoted by the gfn field. role.quadrant: - When role.cr4_pae=0, the guest uses 32-bit gptes while the host uses 64-bit + When role.gpte_is_8_bytes=0, the guest uses 32-bit gptes while the host uses 64-bit sptes. That means a guest page table contains more ptes than the host, so multiple shadow pages are needed to shadow one guest page. For first-level shadow pages, role.quadrant can be 0 or 1 and denotes the @@ -158,9 +158,9 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: The page is invalid and should not be used. It is a root page that is currently pinned (by a cpu hardware register pointing to it); once it is unpinned it will be destroyed. - role.cr4_pae: - Contains the value of cr4.pae for which the page is valid (e.g. whether - 32-bit or 64-bit gptes are in use). + role.gpte_is_8_bytes: + Reflects the size of the guest PTE for which the page is valid, i.e. '1' + if 64-bit gptes are in use, '0' if 32-bit gptes are in use. role.nxe: Contains the value of efer.nxe for which the page is valid. role.cr0_wp: @@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: Contains the value of cr4.smap && !cr0.wp for which the page is valid (pages for which this is true are different from other pages; see the treatment of cr0.wp=0 below). + role.ept_sp: + This is a virtual flag to denote a shadowed nested EPT page. ept_sp + is true if "cr0_wp && smap_andnot_wp", an otherwise invalid combination. role.smm: Is 1 if the page is valid in system management mode. This field determines which of the kvm_memslots array was used to build this |