linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 01/12] KVM: add comments for kvm_debug_exit

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Message-Id: <1430929407-3487-2-git-send-email-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Date:	Wed,  6 May 2015 17:23:16 +0100
From:	Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@...aro.org>
To:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, christoffer.dall@...aro.org,
	marc.zyngier@....com, peter.maydell@...aro.org, agraf@...e.de,
	drjones@...hat.com, pbonzini@...hat.com, zhichao.huang@...aro.org
Cc:	jan.kiszka@...mens.com, dahi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	r65777@...escale.com, bp@...e.de,
	Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@...aro.org>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org (open list:DOCUMENTATION),
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list),
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org (open list:ABI/API)
Subject: [PATCH v3 01/12] KVM: add comments for kvm_debug_exit_arch struct

Bring into line with the comments for the other structures and their
KVM_EXIT_* cases. Also update api.txt to reflect use in kvm_run
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@...aro.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>

---

v2
  - add comments for other exit types
v3
  - s/commentary/comments/
  - add rb tags
  - update api.txt kvm_run to include KVM_EXIT_DEBUG desc

diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
index 9fa2bf8..cb90025 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt
@@ -3070,11 +3070,13 @@ data_offset describes where the data is located (KVM_EXIT_IO_OUT) or
 where kvm expects application code to place the data for the next
 KVM_RUN invocation (KVM_EXIT_IO_IN).  Data format is a packed array.
 
+		/* KVM_EXIT_DEBUG */
 		struct {
 			struct kvm_debug_exit_arch arch;
 		} debug;
 
-Unused.
+If the exit_reason in KVM_EXIT_DEBUG, then a vcpu is processing a debug event
+for which architecture dependant information is returned.
 
 		/* KVM_EXIT_MMIO */
 		struct {
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
index 4b60056..70ac641 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ struct kvm_run {
 			__u32 count;
 			__u64 data_offset; /* relative to kvm_run start */
 		} io;
+		/* KVM_EXIT_DEBUG */
 		struct {
 			struct kvm_debug_exit_arch arch;
 		} debug;
@@ -285,6 +286,7 @@ struct kvm_run {
 			__u32 data;
 			__u8  is_write;
 		} dcr;
+		/* KVM_EXIT_INTERNAL_ERROR */
 		struct {
 			__u32 suberror;
 			/* Available with KVM_CAP_INTERNAL_ERROR_DATA: */
@@ -295,6 +297,7 @@ struct kvm_run {
 		struct {
 			__u64 gprs[32];
 		} osi;
+		/* KVM_EXIT_PAPR_HCALL */
 		struct {
 			__u64 nr;
 			__u64 ret;
-- 
2.3.5

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