[v3,3/6] KVM: Documentation: Add the missing description for ptep in kvm_mmu_page

Message ID 20230801002127.534020-4-mizhang@google.com
State New
Headers
Series Update document description for kvm_mmu_page and kvm_mmu_page_role |

Commit Message

Mingwei Zhang Aug. 1, 2023, 12:21 a.m. UTC
  Add the missing description for ptep in kvm_mmu_page description. ptep is
used when TDP MMU is enabled and it shares the storage with parent_ptes.
Update the doc to help readers to get up-to-date info.

Signed-off-by: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
  

Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
index 35e642303962..17d90974204e 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst
@@ -239,6 +239,9 @@  Shadow pages contain the following information:
     parent_ptes points at this single spte, otherwise, there exists multiple
     sptes pointing at this page and (parent_ptes & ~0x1) points at a data
     structure with a list of parent sptes.
+  ptep:
+    The kernel virtual address of the SPTE that points at this shadow page.
+    Used exclusively by the TDP MMU, this field is a union with parent_ptes.
   unsync:
     If true, then the translations in this page may not match the guest's
     translation.  This is equivalent to the state of the tlb when a pte is