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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c b/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c index 0f2cb4fd7c69..54d66f05fefa 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ #include "lg.h" /*H:120 This is the core hypercall routine: where the Guest gets what it wants. - * Or gets killed. Or, in the case of LHCALL_CRASH, both. */ + * Or gets killed. Or, in the case of LHCALL_SHUTDOWN, both. */ static void do_hcall(struct lg_cpu *cpu, struct hcall_args *args) { switch (args->arg0) { @@ -190,6 +190,13 @@ static void initialize(struct lg_cpu *cpu) * pagetable. */ guest_pagetable_clear_all(cpu); } +/*:*/ + +/*M:013 If a Guest reads from a page (so creates a mapping) that it has never + * written to, and then the Launcher writes to it (ie. the output of a virtual + * device), the Guest will still see the old page. In practice, this never + * happens: why would the Guest read a page which it has never written to? But + * a similar scenario might one day bite us, so it's worth mentioning. :*/ /*H:100 * Hypercalls @@ -227,7 +234,7 @@ void do_hypercalls(struct lg_cpu *cpu) * However, if we are signalled or the Guest sends I/O to the * Launcher, the run_guest() loop will exit without running the * Guest. When it comes back it would try to re-run the - * hypercall. */ + * hypercall. Finding that bug sucked. */ cpu->hcall = NULL; } } |