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>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c b/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c
index 787ab4bc09f0..83511eb0923d 100644
--- a/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c
+++ b/drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static void do_hcall(struct lg_cpu *cpu, struct hcall_args *args)
         case LHCALL_SHUTDOWN: {
                 char msg[128];
                 /*
-                 * Shutdown is such a trivial hypercall that we do it in four
+                 * Shutdown is such a trivial hypercall that we do it in five
                  * lines right here.
                  *
                  * If the lgread fails, it will call kill_guest() itself; the
@@ -245,6 +245,10 @@ static void initialize(struct lg_cpu *cpu)
  * 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.
+ *
+ * Note that if we used a shared anonymous mapping in the Launcher instead of
+ * mapping /dev/zero private, we wouldn't worry about cop-on-write.  And we
+ * need that to switch the Launcher to processes (away from threads) anyway.
 :*/
 
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