Re: [PATCH] kvm_main: fix some comments

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Tue Apr 23 2019 - 07:11:58 EST


On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 17:40:08 +0800
Jiang Biao <benbjiang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> is_dirty has been rename to flush, but the comment for it is

s/rename/renamed/

> outdated. And the description about @flush parameter for
> kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect() is missing, add it in this patch
> also.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index dc8edc97ba85..40b435e77672 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -1138,7 +1138,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_get_dirty_log);
> * and reenable dirty page tracking for the corresponding pages.

BTW: Not seen in the diff, but this line and the preceding one do not
really form a sentence that makes sense :) Maybe fix that as well, as
you are touching the area anyway?

> * @kvm: pointer to kvm instance
> * @log: slot id and address to which we copy the log
> - * @is_dirty: flag set if any page is dirty
> + * @flush: if TLB flush is needed by caller

Hm, maybe "true if TLB flush is needed by caller"?

> *
> * We need to keep it in mind that VCPU threads can write to the bitmap
> * concurrently. So, to avoid losing track of dirty pages we keep the
> @@ -1223,6 +1223,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_get_dirty_log_protect);
> * and reenable dirty page tracking for the corresponding pages.
> * @kvm: pointer to kvm instance
> * @log: slot id and address from which to fetch the bitmap of dirty pages
> + * @flush: if TLB flush is needed by caller
> */
> int kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect(struct kvm *kvm,
> struct kvm_clear_dirty_log *log, bool *flush)