From 633872b980f55f40a5e7de374f26970e41e2137b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rusty Russell Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:55:57 +1100 Subject: lguest: tidy up documentation After Adrian Bunk's "make async_hcall static" moved things around, update comments to match (aka "make Guest"). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- arch/x86/lguest/boot.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch') diff --git a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c index e6023b8..92c5611 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c +++ b/arch/x86/lguest/boot.c @@ -93,27 +93,7 @@ struct lguest_data lguest_data = { }; static cycle_t clock_base; -/*G:035 Notice the lazy_hcall() above, rather than hcall(). This is our first - * real optimization trick! - * - * When lazy_mode is set, it means we're allowed to defer all hypercalls and do - * them as a batch when lazy_mode is eventually turned off. Because hypercalls - * are reasonably expensive, batching them up makes sense. For example, a - * large munmap might update dozens of page table entries: that code calls - * paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu(), does the dozen updates, then calls - * lguest_leave_lazy_mode(). - * - * So, when we're in lazy mode, we call async_hypercall() to store the call for - * future processing. When lazy mode is turned off we issue a hypercall to - * flush the stored calls. - */ -static void lguest_leave_lazy_mode(void) -{ - paravirt_leave_lazy(paravirt_get_lazy_mode()); - hcall(LHCALL_FLUSH_ASYNC, 0, 0, 0); -} - -/* async_hcall() is pretty simple: I'm quite proud of it really. We have a +/*G:037 async_hcall() is pretty simple: I'm quite proud of it really. We have a * ring buffer of stored hypercalls which the Host will run though next time we * do a normal hypercall. Each entry in the ring has 4 slots for the hypercall * arguments, and a "hcall_status" word which is 0 if the call is ready to go, @@ -151,6 +131,18 @@ static void async_hcall(unsigned long call, unsigned long arg1, local_irq_restore(flags); } +/*G:035 Notice the lazy_hcall() above, rather than hcall(). This is our first + * real optimization trick! + * + * When lazy_mode is set, it means we're allowed to defer all hypercalls and do + * them as a batch when lazy_mode is eventually turned off. Because hypercalls + * are reasonably expensive, batching them up makes sense. For example, a + * large munmap might update dozens of page table entries: that code calls + * paravirt_enter_lazy_mmu(), does the dozen updates, then calls + * lguest_leave_lazy_mode(). + * + * So, when we're in lazy mode, we call async_hcall() to store the call for + * future processing. */ static void lazy_hcall(unsigned long call, unsigned long arg1, unsigned long arg2, @@ -161,7 +153,14 @@ static void lazy_hcall(unsigned long call, else async_hcall(call, arg1, arg2, arg3); } -/*:*/ + +/* When lazy mode is turned off reset the per-cpu lazy mode variable and then + * issue a hypercall to flush any stored calls. */ +static void lguest_leave_lazy_mode(void) +{ + paravirt_leave_lazy(paravirt_get_lazy_mode()); + hcall(LHCALL_FLUSH_ASYNC, 0, 0, 0); +} /*G:033 * After that diversion we return to our first native-instruction -- cgit v1.1