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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt | 8 |
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/00-INDEX b/Documentation/virtual/00-INDEX index 8e601991d91..924bd462675 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/virtual/00-INDEX @@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ Virtualization support in the Linux kernel. - this file. kvm/ - Kernel Virtual Machine. See also http://linux-kvm.org -lguest/ - - Extremely simple hypervisor for experimental/educational use. uml/ - User Mode Linux, builds/runs Linux kernel as a userspace program. virtio.txt diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index 5dc972c09b5..fa5f1dbc6b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ To instantiate a large spte, four constraints must be satisfied: - the spte must point to a large host page - the guest pte must be a large pte of at least equivalent size (if tdp is - enabled, there is no guest pte and this condition is satisified) + enabled, there is no guest pte and this condition is satisfied) - if the spte will be writeable, the large page frame may not overlap any write-protected pages - the guest page must be wholly contained by a single memory slot @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ To check the last two conditions, the mmu maintains a ->write_count set of arrays for each memory slot and large page size. Every write protected page causes its write_count to be incremented, thus preventing instantiation of a large spte. The frames at the end of an unaligned memory slot have -artificically inflated ->write_counts so they can never be instantiated. +artificially inflated ->write_counts so they can never be instantiated. Further reading =============== diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt b/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt index a350ae135b8..da094737e2f 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt @@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ segmentation, if both guests are amenable. Packets are transmitted by placing them in the transmitq, and buffers for incoming packets are placed in the receiveq. In each -case, the packet itself is preceeded by a header: +case, the packet itself is preceded by a header: struct virtio_net_hdr { @@ -1642,7 +1642,7 @@ struct virtio_net_ctrl_mac { The device can filter incoming packets by any number of destination MAC addresses.[footnote: -Since there are no guarentees, it can use a hash filter +Since there are no guarantees, it can use a hash filter orsilently switch to allmulti or promiscuous mode if it is given too many addresses. ] This table is set using the class VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC and the @@ -1805,7 +1805,7 @@ the FLUSH and FLUSH_OUT types are equivalent, the device does not distinguish between them ]). If the device has VIRTIO_BLK_F_BARRIER feature the high bit (VIRTIO_BLK_T_BARRIER) indicates that this request acts as a -barrier and that all preceeding requests must be complete before +barrier and that all preceding requests must be complete before this one, and all following requests must not be started until this is complete. Note that a barrier does not flush caches in the underlying backend device in host, and thus does not serve as @@ -2118,7 +2118,7 @@ This is historical, and independent of the guest page size Otherwise, the guest may begin to re-use pages previously given to the balloon before the device has acknowledged their - withdrawl. [footnote: + withdrawal. [footnote: In this case, deflation advice is merely a courtesy ] |