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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
@@ -215,6 +215,15 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
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.
+ write_flooding_count:
+ A guest may write to a page table many times, causing a lot of
+ emulations if the page needs to be write-protected (see "Synchronized
+ and unsynchronized pages" below). Leaf pages can be unsynchronized
+ so that they do not trigger frequent emulation, but this is not
+ possible for non-leafs. This field counts the number of emulations
+ since the last time the page table was actually used; if emulation
+ is triggered too frequently on this page, KVM will unmap the page
+ to avoid emulation in the future.
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