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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-07-26 10:41:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-26 11:35:16 -0700
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lguest: documentation I: Preparation
The netfilter code had very good documentation: the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO. Noone ever read it. So this time I'm trying something different, using a bit of Knuthiness. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-/* Actual hypercalls, which allow guests to actually do something.
- Copyright (C) 2006 Rusty Russell IBM Corporation
+/*P:500 Just as userspace programs request kernel operations through a system
+ * call, the Guest requests Host operations through a "hypercall". You might
+ * notice this nomenclature doesn't really follow any logic, but the name has
+ * been around for long enough that we're stuck with it. As you'd expect, this
+ * code is basically a one big switch statement. :*/
+
+/* Copyright (C) 2006 Rusty Russell IBM Corporation
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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