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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-25 15:38:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-25 15:38:19 -0700
commit2c7505570353af02e48c58ab4d109edd9bbbdd81 (patch)
treeece17dd6b25fa7a66eedf57a87174f13eb7b483a /include/linux
parentMerge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev (diff)
parentlguest: documentation update (diff)
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest: lguest: documentation update lguest: Add to maintainers file. lguest: build fix lguest: clean up lguest_launcher.h lguest: remove unused "wake" element from struct lguest lguest: use defines from x86 headers instead of magic numbers lguest: example launcher header cleanup.
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/lguest.h4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/lguest_launcher.h24
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/lguest.h b/include/linux/lguest.h
index 8beb29134626..175e63f4a8c0 100644
--- a/include/linux/lguest.h
+++ b/include/linux/lguest.h
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
#define LG_CLOCK_MAX_DELTA ULONG_MAX
/*G:032 The second method of communicating with the Host is to via "struct
- * lguest_data". The Guest's very first hypercall is to tell the Host where
- * this is, and then the Guest and Host both publish information in it. :*/
+ * lguest_data". Once the Guest's initialization hypercall tells the Host where
+ * this is, the Guest and Host both publish information in it. :*/
struct lguest_data
{
/* 512 == enabled (same as eflags in normal hardware). The Guest
diff --git a/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h b/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h
index 61e1e3e6b1cc..697104da91f1 100644
--- a/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h
+++ b/include/linux/lguest_launcher.h
@@ -1,17 +1,7 @@
-#ifndef _ASM_LGUEST_USER
-#define _ASM_LGUEST_USER
+#ifndef _LINUX_LGUEST_LAUNCHER
+#define _LINUX_LGUEST_LAUNCHER
/* Everything the "lguest" userspace program needs to know. */
#include <linux/types.h>
-/* They can register up to 32 arrays of lguest_dma. */
-#define LGUEST_MAX_DMA 32
-/* At most we can dma 16 lguest_dma in one op. */
-#define LGUEST_MAX_DMA_SECTIONS 16
-
-/* How many devices? Assume each one wants up to two dma arrays per device. */
-#define LGUEST_MAX_DEVICES (LGUEST_MAX_DMA/2)
-
-/* Where the Host expects the Guest to SEND_DMA console output to. */
-#define LGUEST_CONSOLE_DMA_KEY 0
/*D:010
* Drivers
@@ -20,7 +10,11 @@
* real devices (think of the damage it could do!) we provide virtual devices.
* We could emulate a PCI bus with various devices on it, but that is a fairly
* complex burden for the Host and suboptimal for the Guest, so we have our own
- * "lguest" bus and simple drivers.
+ * simple lguest bus and we use "virtio" drivers. These drivers need a set of
+ * routines from us which will actually do the virtual I/O, but they handle all
+ * the net/block/console stuff themselves. This means that if we want to add
+ * a new device, we simply need to write a new virtio driver and create support
+ * for it in the Launcher: this code won't need to change.
*
* Devices are described by a simplified ID, a status byte, and some "config"
* bytes which describe this device's configuration. This is placed by the
@@ -51,9 +45,9 @@ struct lguest_vqconfig {
/* Write command first word is a request. */
enum lguest_req
{
- LHREQ_INITIALIZE, /* + pfnlimit, pgdir, start, pageoffset */
+ LHREQ_INITIALIZE, /* + base, pfnlimit, pgdir, start */
LHREQ_GETDMA, /* No longer used */
LHREQ_IRQ, /* + irq */
LHREQ_BREAK, /* + on/off flag (on blocks until someone does off) */
};
-#endif /* _ASM_LGUEST_USER */
+#endif /* _LINUX_LGUEST_LAUNCHER */