From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4 of 5] docs: Document HYPERVISOR_update_descriptor
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:18:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb43f655bcc863d681fe.1351855138@hastur.hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1351855134@hastur.hellion.org.uk>
# HG changeset patch
# User Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
# Date 1351855019 -3600
# Node ID bb43f655bcc863d681fe30cea477f12333dd0cc6
# Parent 433d5d988e30e66a9c1f53a9b2c027692f9de11c
docs: Document HYPERVISOR_update_descriptor
Mark-up for inclusion of generated docs.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
diff -r 433d5d988e30 -r bb43f655bcc8 xen/include/public/arch-x86/xen.h
--- a/xen/include/public/arch-x86/xen.h Fri Nov 02 12:16:44 2012 +0100
+++ b/xen/include/public/arch-x86/xen.h Fri Nov 02 12:16:59 2012 +0100
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ typedef unsigned long xen_pfn_t;
#endif
/*
- * SEGMENT DESCRIPTOR TABLES
+ * `incontents 200 segdesc Segment Descriptor Tables
*/
/*
* ` enum neg_errnoval
@@ -83,11 +83,24 @@ typedef unsigned long xen_pfn_t;
* start of the GDT because some stupid OSes export hard-coded selector values
* in their ABI. These hard-coded values are always near the start of the GDT,
* so Xen places itself out of the way, at the far end of the GDT.
+ *
+ * NB The LDT is set using the MMUEXT_SET_LDT op of HYPERVISOR_mmuext_op
*/
#define FIRST_RESERVED_GDT_PAGE 14
#define FIRST_RESERVED_GDT_BYTE (FIRST_RESERVED_GDT_PAGE * 4096)
#define FIRST_RESERVED_GDT_ENTRY (FIRST_RESERVED_GDT_BYTE / 8)
+
+/*
+ * ` enum neg_errnoval
+ * ` HYPERVISOR_update_descriptor(u64 pa, u64 desc);
+ * `
+ * ` @pa The machine physical address of the descriptor to
+ * ` update. Must be either a descriptor page or writable.
+ * ` @desc The descriptor value to update, in the same format as a
+ * ` native descriptor table entry.
+ */
+
/* Maximum number of virtual CPUs in legacy multi-processor guests. */
#define XEN_LEGACY_MAX_VCPUS 32
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-02 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-02 11:18 [PATCH 0 of 5] docs: x86 PV MMU related functions Ian Campbell
2012-11-02 11:18 ` [PATCH 1 of 5] docs: document HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping(_other_domain) Ian Campbell
2012-11-02 11:33 ` David Vrabel
2012-11-02 13:07 ` Ian Campbell
2012-11-19 11:31 ` Ian Jackson
2012-11-02 11:18 ` [PATCH 2 of 5] docs: Document HYPERVISOR_mmuext_op Ian Campbell
2012-11-19 11:31 ` Ian Jackson
2012-11-02 11:18 ` [PATCH 3 of 5] docs: Add ToC entry for start of day memory layout Ian Campbell
2012-11-19 11:32 ` Ian Jackson
2012-11-02 11:18 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2012-11-19 11:31 ` [PATCH 4 of 5] docs: Document HYPERVISOR_update_descriptor Ian Jackson
2012-11-02 11:18 ` [PATCH 5 of 5] docs: Include prototype for HYPERVISOR_multicall Ian Campbell
2012-11-19 11:31 ` Ian Jackson
2012-11-12 10:04 ` [PATCH 0 of 5] docs: x86 PV MMU related functions Ian Campbell
2012-11-16 16:55 ` Ian Campbell
2012-11-18 21:02 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2012-11-19 10:29 ` Ian Campbell
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