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author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2007-10-25 09:02:50 +0400 |
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committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2007-10-25 09:02:50 +0400 |
commit | e1e72965ec2c02db99b415cd06c17ea90767e3a4 (patch) | |
tree | 94e43aac35bdc33220e64f285b72b3b2b787fd57 /drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c | |
parent | 568a17ffce2eeceae0cd9fc37e97cbad12f70278 (diff) | |
download | linux-e1e72965ec2c02db99b415cd06c17ea90767e3a4.tar.xz |
lguest: documentation update
Went through the documentation doing typo and content fixes. This
patch contains only comment and whitespace changes.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c b/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c index 71c64837b437..8904f72f97c6 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c @@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ struct lguest_device { * Device configurations * * The configuration information for a device consists of a series of fields. - * The device will look for these fields during setup. + * We don't really care what they are: the Launcher set them up, and the driver + * will look at them during setup. * * For us these fields come immediately after that device's descriptor in the * lguest_devices page. @@ -122,8 +123,8 @@ static void lg_set_status(struct virtio_device *vdev, u8 status) * The other piece of infrastructure virtio needs is a "virtqueue": a way of * the Guest device registering buffers for the other side to read from or * write into (ie. send and receive buffers). Each device can have multiple - * virtqueues: for example the console has one queue for sending and one for - * receiving. + * virtqueues: for example the console driver uses one queue for sending and + * another for receiving. * * Fortunately for us, a very fast shared-memory-plus-descriptors virtqueue * already exists in virtio_ring.c. We just need to connect it up. @@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ static void lg_notify(struct virtqueue *vq) * * This is kind of an ugly duckling. It'd be nicer to have a standard * representation of a virtqueue in the configuration space, but it seems that - * everyone wants to do it differently. The KVM guys want the Guest to + * everyone wants to do it differently. The KVM coders want the Guest to * allocate its own pages and tell the Host where they are, but for lguest it's * simpler for the Host to simply tell us where the pages are. * @@ -284,6 +285,8 @@ static void add_lguest_device(struct lguest_device_desc *d) { struct lguest_device *ldev; + /* Start with zeroed memory; Linux's device layer seems to count on + * it. */ ldev = kzalloc(sizeof(*ldev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ldev) { printk(KERN_EMERG "Cannot allocate lguest dev %u\n", |