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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 12 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 09905cbcbb0b..0e03b1968272 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | |||
@@ -874,12 +874,12 @@ It is recommended that the lower 21 bits of guest_phys_addr and userspace_addr | |||
874 | be identical. This allows large pages in the guest to be backed by large | 874 | be identical. This allows large pages in the guest to be backed by large |
875 | pages in the host. | 875 | pages in the host. |
876 | 876 | ||
877 | The flags field supports two flag, KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES, which instructs | 877 | The flags field supports two flags: KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES and |
878 | kvm to keep track of writes to memory within the slot. See KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG | 878 | KVM_MEM_READONLY. The former can be set to instruct KVM to keep track of |
879 | ioctl. The KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM capability indicates the availability of the | 879 | writes to memory within the slot. See KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG ioctl to know how to |
880 | KVM_MEM_READONLY flag. When this flag is set for a memory region, KVM only | 880 | use it. The latter can be set, if KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM capability allows it, |
881 | allows read accesses. Writes will be posted to userspace as KVM_EXIT_MMIO | 881 | to make a new slot read-only. In this case, writes to this memory will be |
882 | exits. | 882 | posted to userspace as KVM_EXIT_MMIO exits. |
883 | 883 | ||
884 | When the KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU capability is available, changes in the backing of | 884 | When the KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU capability is available, changes in the backing of |
885 | the memory region are automatically reflected into the guest. For example, an | 885 | the memory region are automatically reflected into the guest. For example, an |