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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-02-05 10:40:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-02-05 10:40:17 -0800
commit90c9e950c0def5c354b4a6154a2ddda3e5f214ac (patch)
tree66dc9fc498322caa9e0cefdec3da41401018a530 /include
parent5fdb26213fcb912955e0c9eacbe2b8961628682f (diff)
parente25a8d959992f61b64a58fc62fb7951dc6f31d1f (diff)
Merge tag 'for-linus-5.17a-rc3-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen fixes from Juergen Gross: - documentation fixes related to Xen - enable x2apic mode when available when running as hardware virtualized guest under Xen - cleanup and fix a corner case of vcpu enumeration when running a paravirtualized Xen guest * tag 'for-linus-5.17a-rc3-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: x86/Xen: streamline (and fix) PV CPU enumeration xen: update missing ioctl magic numers documentation Improve docs for IOCTL_GNTDEV_MAP_GRANT_REF xen: xenbus_dev.h: delete incorrect file name xen/x2apic: enable x2apic mode when supported for HVM
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/xen/gntdev.h8
-rw-r--r--include/xen/xenbus_dev.h2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/xen/gntdev.h b/include/uapi/xen/gntdev.h
index 9ac5515b9bc2..7a7145395c09 100644
--- a/include/uapi/xen/gntdev.h
+++ b/include/uapi/xen/gntdev.h
@@ -47,7 +47,13 @@ struct ioctl_gntdev_grant_ref {
/*
* Inserts the grant references into the mapping table of an instance
* of gntdev. N.B. This does not perform the mapping, which is deferred
- * until mmap() is called with @index as the offset.
+ * until mmap() is called with @index as the offset. @index should be
+ * considered opaque to userspace, with one exception: if no grant
+ * references have ever been inserted into the mapping table of this
+ * instance, @index will be set to 0. This is necessary to use gntdev
+ * with userspace APIs that expect a file descriptor that can be
+ * mmap()'d at offset 0, such as Wayland. If @count is set to 0, this
+ * ioctl will fail.
*/
#define IOCTL_GNTDEV_MAP_GRANT_REF \
_IOC(_IOC_NONE, 'G', 0, sizeof(struct ioctl_gntdev_map_grant_ref))
diff --git a/include/xen/xenbus_dev.h b/include/xen/xenbus_dev.h
index bbee8c6a349d..4dc45a51c044 100644
--- a/include/xen/xenbus_dev.h
+++ b/include/xen/xenbus_dev.h
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
/******************************************************************************
- * evtchn.h
- *
* Interface to /dev/xen/xenbus_backend.
*
* Copyright (c) 2011 Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>