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-rw-r--r--drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c b/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c
index 71c64837b43..8904f72f97c 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",