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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-07-30 16:03:45 -0600
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2009-07-30 16:03:46 +0930
commita91d74a3c4de8115295ee87350c13a329164aaaf (patch)
tree02c862fccc9abedf7fc354061e69c4b5fbcce06d /drivers/lguest/core.c
parent2e04ef76916d1e29a077ea9d0f2003c8fd86724d (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 'drivers/lguest/core.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/lguest/core.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/core.c b/drivers/lguest/core.c
index cd058bc903ff..1e2cb846b3c9 100644
--- a/drivers/lguest/core.c
+++ b/drivers/lguest/core.c
@@ -217,10 +217,15 @@ int run_guest(struct lg_cpu *cpu, unsigned long __user *user)
/*
* It's possible the Guest did a NOTIFY hypercall to the
- * Launcher, in which case we return from the read() now.
+ * Launcher.
*/
if (cpu->pending_notify) {
+ /*
+ * Does it just needs to write to a registered
+ * eventfd (ie. the appropriate virtqueue thread)?
+ */
if (!send_notify_to_eventfd(cpu)) {
+ /* OK, we tell the main Laucher. */
if (put_user(cpu->pending_notify, user))
return -EFAULT;
return sizeof(cpu->pending_notify);