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>
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Rusty Russell
2009-07-30 16:03:45 -06:00
parent 2e04ef7691
commit a91d74a3c4
11 changed files with 399 additions and 112 deletions

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@@ -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.
:*/
/*H:100