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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2007-07-26 10:41:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-26 11:35:16 -0700 |
| commit | f938d2c892db0d80d144253d4a7b7083efdbedeb (patch) | |
| tree | 1fbc946a9fb59827001a5d4d5224abe5e624e605 /drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c | |
| parent | dfb68689bf3e3d31dc9fb5c2bde5379a4ca9b0ec (diff) | |
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lguest: documentation I: Preparation
The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO.
Noone ever read it.
So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c b/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c index e90d7a783daf..6ae86f20ce3d 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/lguest_user.c @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ -/* Userspace control of the guest, via /dev/lguest. */ +/*P:200 This contains all the /dev/lguest code, whereby the userspace launcher + * controls and communicates with the Guest. For example, the first write will + * tell us the memory size, pagetable, entry point and kernel address offset. + * A read will run the Guest until a signal is pending (-EINTR), or the Guest + * does a DMA out to the Launcher. Writes are also used to get a DMA buffer + * registered by the Guest and to send the Guest an interrupt. :*/ #include <linux/uaccess.h> #include <linux/miscdevice.h> #include <linux/fs.h> |