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| author | Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-06-19 17:09:20 +0800 |
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| committer | Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> | 2013-06-27 14:20:42 +0300 |
| commit | accaefe07ddbeb12c0de4cec1d62dba6a0ea1605 (patch) | |
| tree | 9363694003f6263cc15b8fcf2c5351d065a2a0a4 /Documentation/virtual | |
| parent | a8eca9dcc656a405a28ffba43f3d86a1ff0eb331 (diff) | |
KVM: MMU: document clear_spte_count
Document it to Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index 869abcc48315..f514a3fad9b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -210,6 +210,11 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: A bitmap indicating which sptes in spt point (directly or indirectly) at pages that may be unsynchronized. Used to quickly locate all unsychronized pages reachable from a given page. + clear_spte_count: + Only present on 32-bit hosts, where a 64-bit spte cannot be written + atomically. The reader uses this while running out of the MMU lock + to detect in-progress updates and retry them until the writer has + finished the write. Reverse map =========== |