From: Felipe Franciosi <felipe@nutanix.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Franciosi <felipe@nutanix.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH] virtio_ring: fix description of virtqueue_get_buf
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 06:16:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1479132975-8517-1-git-send-email-felipe@nutanix.com> (raw)
The device (not the driver) populates the used ring and includes the len
of how much data was written.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Franciosi <felipe@nutanix.com>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 489bfc6..8a0d6a9 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ static inline bool more_used(const struct vring_virtqueue *vq)
* @vq: the struct virtqueue we're talking about.
* @len: the length written into the buffer
*
- * If the driver wrote data into the buffer, @len will be set to the
+ * If the device wrote data into the buffer, @len will be set to the
* amount written. This means you don't need to clear the buffer
* beforehand to ensure there's no data leakage in the case of short
* writes.
--
1.9.4
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2016-11-14 14:16 Felipe Franciosi [this message]
2016-11-15 3:21 ` [PATCH] virtio_ring: fix description of virtqueue_get_buf Jason Wang
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