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authorAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-04-26 11:59:21 +0300
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-05-17 12:19:32 +0300
commitc4bd09b28907ca17cdb307c32bbcc9882c280feb (patch)
treed9a30b65423a545a87bd478e060e43f8acb41a9a
parentb843f065481488fd1d1f4ff2179aaf4f300a1358 (diff)
KVM: Minor MMU documentation edits
Reported by Andrew Jones. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt
index da046711362..0cc28fb84f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt
+++ b/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.