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author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2009-07-30 18:03:45 -0400 |
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committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2009-07-30 02:33:46 -0400 |
commit | a91d74a3c4de8115295ee87350c13a329164aaaf (patch) | |
tree | 02c862fccc9abedf7fc354061e69c4b5fbcce06d /arch/x86/include | |
parent | 2e04ef76916d1e29a077ea9d0f2003c8fd86724d (diff) |
lguest: update commentry
Every so often, after code shuffles, I need to go through and unbitrot
the Lguest Journey (see drivers/lguest/README). Since we now use RCU in
a simple form in one place I took the opportunity to expand that explanation.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h index cceb73e12e50..ba0eed8aa1a6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/lguest_hcall.h | |||
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ | |||
35 | * operations? There are two ways: the direct way is to make a "hypercall", | 35 | * operations? There are two ways: the direct way is to make a "hypercall", |
36 | * to make requests of the Host Itself. | 36 | * to make requests of the Host Itself. |
37 | * | 37 | * |
38 | * We use the KVM hypercall mechanism. Seventeen hypercalls are | 38 | * We use the KVM hypercall mechanism, though completely different hypercall |
39 | * available: the hypercall number is put in the %eax register, and the | 39 | * numbers. Seventeen hypercalls are available: the hypercall number is put in |
40 | * arguments (when required) are placed in %ebx, %ecx, %edx and %esi. | 40 | * the %eax register, and the arguments (when required) are placed in %ebx, |
41 | * If a return value makes sense, it's returned in %eax. | 41 | * %ecx, %edx and %esi. If a return value makes sense, it's returned in %eax. |
42 | * | 42 | * |
43 | * Grossly invalid calls result in Sudden Death at the hands of the vengeful | 43 | * Grossly invalid calls result in Sudden Death at the hands of the vengeful |
44 | * Host, rather than returning failure. This reflects Winston Churchill's | 44 | * Host, rather than returning failure. This reflects Winston Churchill's |