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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-03-28 17:05:53 +0100
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-03-28 01:05:54 +0100
commita6bd8e13034dd7d60b6f14217096efa192d0adc1 (patch)
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parentlguest: Don't need comment terminator before disk section. (diff)
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lguest: comment documentation update.
Took some cycles to re-read the Lguest Journey end-to-end, fix some rot and tighten some phrases. Only comments change. No new jokes, but a couple of recycled old jokes. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lguest/core.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/lguest/core.c18
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/core.c b/drivers/lguest/core.c
index c632c08cbbdc..5eea4356d703 100644
--- a/drivers/lguest/core.c
+++ b/drivers/lguest/core.c
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
/*P:400 This contains run_guest() which actually calls into the Host<->Guest
* Switcher and analyzes the return, such as determining if the Guest wants the
- * Host to do something. This file also contains useful helper routines, and a
- * couple of non-obvious setup and teardown pieces which were implemented after
- * days of debugging pain. :*/
+ * Host to do something. This file also contains useful helper routines. :*/
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/stringify.h>
#include <linux/stddef.h>
@@ -49,8 +47,8 @@ static __init int map_switcher(void)
* easy.
*/
- /* We allocate an array of "struct page"s. map_vm_area() wants the
- * pages in this form, rather than just an array of pointers. */
+ /* We allocate an array of struct page pointers. map_vm_area() wants
+ * this, rather than just an array of pages. */
switcher_page = kmalloc(sizeof(switcher_page[0])*TOTAL_SWITCHER_PAGES,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!switcher_page) {
@@ -172,7 +170,7 @@ void __lgread(struct lg_cpu *cpu, void *b, unsigned long addr, unsigned bytes)
}
}
-/* This is the write (copy into guest) version. */
+/* This is the write (copy into Guest) version. */
void __lgwrite(struct lg_cpu *cpu, unsigned long addr, const void *b,
unsigned bytes)
{
@@ -209,9 +207,9 @@ int run_guest(struct lg_cpu *cpu, unsigned long __user *user)
if (cpu->break_out)
return -EAGAIN;
- /* Check if there are any interrupts which can be delivered
- * now: if so, this sets up the hander to be executed when we
- * next run the Guest. */
+ /* Check if there are any interrupts which can be delivered now:
+ * if so, this sets up the hander to be executed when we next
+ * run the Guest. */
maybe_do_interrupt(cpu);
/* All long-lived kernel loops need to check with this horrible
@@ -246,8 +244,10 @@ int run_guest(struct lg_cpu *cpu, unsigned long __user *user)
lguest_arch_handle_trap(cpu);
}
+ /* Special case: Guest is 'dead' but wants a reboot. */
if (cpu->lg->dead == ERR_PTR(-ERESTART))
return -ERESTART;
+
/* The Guest is dead => "No such file or directory" */
return -ENOENT;
}