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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual/kvm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/timekeeping.txt | 2 |
5 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 867112f1968d..a8cdc7b72281 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -2104,7 +2104,7 @@ Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error Allows setting an eventfd to directly trigger a guest interrupt. kvm_irqfd.fd specifies the file descriptor to use as the eventfd and kvm_irqfd.gsi specifies the irqchip pin toggled by this event. When -an event is tiggered on the eventfd, an interrupt is injected into +an event is triggered on the eventfd, an interrupt is injected into the guest using the specified gsi pin. The irqfd is removed using the KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_DEASSIGN flag, specifying both kvm_irqfd.fd and kvm_irqfd.gsi. @@ -2115,7 +2115,7 @@ interrupts. When KVM_IRQFD_FLAG_RESAMPLE is set the user must pass an additional eventfd in the kvm_irqfd.resamplefd field. When operating in resample mode, posting of an interrupt through kvm_irq.fd asserts the specified gsi in the irqchip. When the irqchip is resampled, such -as from an EOI, the gsi is de-asserted and the user is notifed via +as from an EOI, the gsi is de-asserted and the user is notified via kvm_irqfd.resamplefd. It is the user's responsibility to re-queue the interrupt if the device making use of it still requires service. Note that closing the resamplefd is not sufficient to disable the diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt index d922d73efa7b..c8d040e27046 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Usage example : A vcpu of a paravirtualized guest that is busywaiting in guest kernel mode for an event to occur (ex: a spinlock to become available) can execute HLT instruction once it has busy-waited for more than a threshold time-interval. Execution of HLT instruction would cause the hypervisor to put -the vcpu to sleep until occurence of an appropriate event. Another vcpu of the +the vcpu to sleep until occurrence of an appropriate event. Another vcpu of the same guest can wakeup the sleeping vcpu by issuing KVM_HC_KICK_CPU hypercall, specifying APIC ID (a1) of the vcpu to be woken up. An additional argument (a0) is used in the hypercall for future use. diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt index f8869410d40c..d68af4dc3006 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/locking.txt @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ The Dirty bit is lost in this case. In order to avoid this kind of issue, we always treat the spte as "volatile" if it can be updated out of mmu-lock, see spte_has_volatile_bits(), it means, -the spte is always atomicly updated in this case. +the spte is always atomically updated in this case. 3): flush tlbs due to spte updated If the spte is updated from writable to readonly, we should flush all TLBs, @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ be flushed caused by this reason in mmu_spte_update() since this is a common function to update spte (present -> present). Since the spte is "volatile" if it can be updated out of mmu-lock, we always -atomicly update the spte, the race caused by fast page fault can be avoided, +atomically update the spte, the race caused by fast page fault can be avoided, See the comments in spte_has_volatile_bits() and mmu_spte_update(). 3. Reference diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt index 4cd076febb02..4643cde517c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/ppc-pv.txt @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ If any other bit changes in the MSR, please still use mtmsr(d). Patched instructions ==================== -The "ld" and "std" instructions are transormed to "lwz" and "stw" instructions +The "ld" and "std" instructions are transformed to "lwz" and "stw" instructions respectively on 32 bit systems with an added offset of 4 to accommodate for big endianness. diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/timekeeping.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/timekeeping.txt index df8946377cb6..76808a17ad84 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/timekeeping.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/timekeeping.txt @@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ at any time. This causes problems as the passage of real time, the injection of machine interrupts and the associated clock sources are no longer completely synchronized with real time. -This same problem can occur on native harware to a degree, as SMM mode may +This same problem can occur on native hardware to a degree, as SMM mode may steal cycles from the naturally on X86 systems when SMM mode is used by the BIOS, but not in such an extreme fashion. However, the fact that SMM mode may cause similar problems to virtualization makes it a good justification for |