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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2011-07-22 14:39:50 +0930 | 
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2011-07-22 14:39:50 +0930 | 
| commit | 9f54288def3f92b7805eb6d4b1ddcd73ecf6e889 (patch) | |
| tree | bb46242a92e47112c2967354b3be0c6daecae7a7 /arch/x86/lguest | |
| parent | 3c3ed482dc077a67903a58c9e1aedba1bb18c18a (diff) | |
| download | linux-9f54288def3f92b7805eb6d4b1ddcd73ecf6e889.tar.bz2 | |
lguest: update comments
Also removes a long-unused #define and an extraneous semicolon.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lguest')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/lguest/boot.c | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S | 18 | 
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 13 deletions
| diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c index 719a32c60516..74279907bc1a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c +++ b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c @@ -71,7 +71,8 @@  #include <asm/stackprotector.h>  #include <asm/reboot.h>		/* for struct machine_ops */ -/*G:010 Welcome to the Guest! +/*G:010 + * Welcome to the Guest!   *   * The Guest in our tale is a simple creature: identical to the Host but   * behaving in simplified but equivalent ways.  In particular, the Guest is the @@ -190,15 +191,23 @@ static void lazy_hcall4(unsigned long call,  #endif  /*G:036 - * When lazy mode is turned off reset the per-cpu lazy mode variable and then - * issue the do-nothing hypercall to flush any stored calls. -:*/ + * When lazy mode is turned off, we issue the do-nothing hypercall to + * flush any stored calls, and call the generic helper to reset the + * per-cpu lazy mode variable. + */  static void lguest_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(void)  {  	hcall(LHCALL_FLUSH_ASYNC, 0, 0, 0, 0);  	paravirt_leave_lazy_mmu();  } +/* + * We also catch the end of context switch; we enter lazy mode for much of + * that too, so again we need to flush here. + * + * (Technically, this is lazy CPU mode, and normally we're in lazy MMU + * mode, but unlike Xen, lguest doesn't care about the difference). + */  static void lguest_end_context_switch(struct task_struct *next)  {  	hcall(LHCALL_FLUSH_ASYNC, 0, 0, 0, 0); @@ -640,7 +649,7 @@ static void lguest_write_cr4(unsigned long val)  /*   * The Guest calls this after it has set a second-level entry (pte), ie. to map - * a page into a process' address space.  Wetell the Host the toplevel and + * a page into a process' address space.  We tell the Host the toplevel and   * address this corresponds to.  The Guest uses one pagetable per process, so   * we need to tell the Host which one we're changing (mm->pgd).   */ @@ -1139,7 +1148,7 @@ static struct notifier_block paniced = {  static __init char *lguest_memory_setup(void)  {  	/* -	 *The Linux bootloader header contains an "e820" memory map: the +	 * The Linux bootloader header contains an "e820" memory map: the  	 * Launcher populated the first entry with our memory limit.  	 */  	e820_add_region(boot_params.e820_map[0].addr, diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S b/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S index c8c95e575c1e..cfa23e37ec5c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S +++ b/arch/x86/lguest/i386_head.S @@ -6,18 +6,22 @@  #include <asm/processor-flags.h>  /*G:020 - * Our story starts with the kernel booting into startup_32 in - * arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S.  It expects a boot header, which is created by - * the bootloader (the Launcher in our case). + + * Our story starts with the bzImage: booting starts at startup_32 in + * arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S.  This merely uncompresses the real + * kernel in place and then jumps into it: startup_32 in + * arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S.  Both routines expects a boot header in the %esi + * register, which is created by the bootloader (the Launcher in our case).   *   * The startup_32 function does very little: it clears the uninitialized global   * C variables which we expect to be zero (ie. BSS) and then copies the boot - * header and kernel command line somewhere safe.  Finally it checks the - * 'hardware_subarch' field.  This was introduced in 2.6.24 for lguest and Xen: - * if it's set to '1' (lguest's assigned number), then it calls us here. + * header and kernel command line somewhere safe, and populates some initial + * page tables.  Finally it checks the 'hardware_subarch' field.  This was + * introduced in 2.6.24 for lguest and Xen: if it's set to '1' (lguest's + * assigned number), then it calls us here.   *   * WARNING: be very careful here!  We're running at addresses equal to physical - * addesses (around 0), not above PAGE_OFFSET as most code expectes + * addesses (around 0), not above PAGE_OFFSET as most code expects   * (eg. 0xC0000000).  Jumps are relative, so they're OK, but we can't touch any   * data without remembering to subtract __PAGE_OFFSET!   * |