From: Chrinovic M <chrinovicmu@gmail.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Chrinovic M <chrinovicmu@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: Document next_segment() behavior
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:50:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260327095000.134105-1-chrinovicmu@gmail.com> (raw)
Add a brief comment describing how next_segment() computes
the number of bytes available in the current page when
handling guest memory accesses.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Chrinovic M <chrinovicmu@gmail.com>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 9093251beb39..03ddfafe005c 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -3176,6 +3176,7 @@ void kvm_vcpu_unmap(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_host_map *map)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM_INTERNAL(kvm_vcpu_unmap);
+/* Compute bytes available in current page for the guest memory op */
static int next_segment(unsigned long len, int offset)
{
if (len > PAGE_SIZE - offset)
--
2.39.5
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