From e1e72965ec2c02db99b415cd06c17ea90767e3a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:02:50 +1000 Subject: 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 --- drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c') 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", -- cgit v1.2.3