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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/hyperv/clocks.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xive.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/running-nested-guests.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst | 2 |
8 files changed, 20 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/clocks.rst b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/clocks.rst index 2da2879fad52..a56f4837d443 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/clocks.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/clocks.rst @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ vDSO, and gettimeofday() and related system calls can execute entirely in user space. The vDSO is implemented by mapping the shared page with scale and offset values into user space. User space code performs the same algorithm of reading the TSC and -appying the scale and offset to get the constant 10 MHz clock. +applying the scale and offset to get the constant 10 MHz clock. Linux clockevents are based on Hyper-V synthetic timer 0. While Hyper-V offers 4 synthetic timers for each CPU, Linux only uses diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index c0ddd3035462..73db30cb60fb 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ This is an asynchronous vcpu ioctl and can be invoked from any thread. RISC-V: ^^^^^^^ -Queues an external interrupt to be injected into the virutal CPU. This ioctl +Queues an external interrupt to be injected into the virtual CPU. This ioctl is overloaded with 2 different irq values: a) KVM_INTERRUPT_SET @@ -2722,7 +2722,7 @@ The isa config register can be read anytime but can only be written before a Guest VCPU runs. It will have ISA feature bits matching underlying host set by default. -RISC-V core registers represent the general excution state of a Guest VCPU +RISC-V core registers represent the general execution state of a Guest VCPU and it has the following id bit patterns:: 0x8020 0000 02 <index into the kvm_riscv_core struct:24> (32bit Host) @@ -5232,7 +5232,7 @@ KVM_PV_DISABLE Deregister the VM from the Ultravisor and reclaim the memory that had been donated to the Ultravisor, making it usable by the kernel again. All registered VCPUs are converted back to non-protected ones. If a - previous protected VM had been prepared for asynchonous teardown with + previous protected VM had been prepared for asynchronous teardown with KVM_PV_ASYNC_CLEANUP_PREPARE and not subsequently torn down with KVM_PV_ASYNC_CLEANUP_PERFORM, it will be torn down in this call together with the current protected VM. @@ -5692,7 +5692,7 @@ flags values for ``kvm_sregs2``: ``KVM_SREGS2_FLAGS_PDPTRS_VALID`` - Indicates thats the struct contain valid PDPTR values. + Indicates that the struct contains valid PDPTR values. 4.132 KVM_SET_SREGS2 @@ -6263,7 +6263,7 @@ to the byte array. It is strongly recommended that userspace use ``KVM_EXIT_IO`` (x86) or ``KVM_EXIT_MMIO`` (all except s390) to implement functionality that -requires a guest to interact with host userpace. +requires a guest to interact with host userspace. .. note:: KVM_EXIT_IO is significantly faster than KVM_EXIT_MMIO. @@ -6336,7 +6336,7 @@ s390 specific. } s390_ucontrol; s390 specific. A page fault has occurred for a user controlled virtual -machine (KVM_VM_S390_UNCONTROL) on it's host page table that cannot be +machine (KVM_VM_S390_UNCONTROL) on its host page table that cannot be resolved by the kernel. The program code and the translation exception code that were placed in the cpu's lowcore are presented here as defined by the z Architecture @@ -7510,7 +7510,7 @@ APIC/MSRs/etc). attribute is not supported by KVM. KVM_CAP_SGX_ATTRIBUTE enables a userspace VMM to grant a VM access to one or -more priveleged enclave attributes. args[0] must hold a file handle to a valid +more privileged enclave attributes. args[0] must hold a file handle to a valid SGX attribute file corresponding to an attribute that is supported/restricted by KVM (currently only PROVISIONKEY). @@ -7928,7 +7928,7 @@ writing to the respective MSRs. This capability indicates that userspace can load HV_X64_MSR_VP_INDEX msr. Its value is used to denote the target vcpu for a SynIC interrupt. For -compatibilty, KVM initializes this msr to KVM's internal vcpu index. When this +compatibility, KVM initializes this msr to KVM's internal vcpu index. When this capability is absent, userspace can still query this msr's value. 8.13 KVM_CAP_S390_AIS_MIGRATION @@ -8118,10 +8118,10 @@ regardless of what has actually been exposed through the CPUID leaf. :Parameters: args[0] - size of the dirty log ring KVM is capable of tracking dirty memory using ring buffers that are -mmaped into userspace; there is one dirty ring per vcpu. +mmapped into userspace; there is one dirty ring per vcpu. The dirty ring is available to userspace as an array of -``struct kvm_dirty_gfn``. Each dirty entry it's defined as:: +``struct kvm_dirty_gfn``. Each dirty entry is defined as:: struct kvm_dirty_gfn { __u32 flags; @@ -8160,7 +8160,7 @@ state machine for the entry is as follows:: | | +------------------------------------------+ -To harvest the dirty pages, userspace accesses the mmaped ring buffer +To harvest the dirty pages, userspace accesses the mmapped ring buffer to read the dirty GFNs. If the flags has the DIRTY bit set (at this stage the RESET bit must be cleared), then it means this GFN is a dirty GFN. The userspace should harvest this GFN and mark the flags from state @@ -8286,7 +8286,7 @@ the KVM_XEN_ATTR_TYPE_RUNSTATE_UPDATE_FLAG attribute in the KVM_XEN_SET_ATTR and KVM_XEN_GET_ATTR ioctls. This controls whether KVM will set the XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE flag in guest memory mapped vcpu_runstate_info during updates of the runstate information. Note that versions of KVM which support -the RUNSTATE feature above, but not thie RUNSTATE_UPDATE_FLAG feature, will +the RUNSTATE feature above, but not the RUNSTATE_UPDATE_FLAG feature, will always set the XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE flag when updating the guest structure, which is perhaps counterintuitive. When this flag is advertised, KVM will behave more correctly, not using the XEN_RUNSTATE_UPDATE flag until/unless @@ -8335,7 +8335,7 @@ Architectures: x86 When enabled, KVM will disable emulated Hyper-V features provided to the guest according to the bits Hyper-V CPUID feature leaves. Otherwise, all -currently implmented Hyper-V features are provided unconditionally when +currently implemented Hyper-V features are provided unconditionally when Hyper-V identification is set in the HYPERV_CPUID_INTERFACE (0x40000001) leaf. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst index 9d726e60ec47..a4d39fa1b083 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vm.rst @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Allows user space to retrieve or request to change cpu related information for a KVM does not enforce or limit the cpu model data in any form. Take the information retrieved by means of KVM_S390_VM_CPU_MACHINE as hint for reasonable configuration setups. Instruction interceptions triggered by additionally set facility bits that -are not handled by KVM need to by imlemented in the VM driver code. +are not handled by KVM need to by implemented in the VM driver code. :Parameters: address of buffer to store/set the processor related cpu data of type struct kvm_s390_vm_cpu_processor*. diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xive.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xive.rst index 8b5e7b40bdf8..a07e16d34006 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xive.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/xive.rst @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ the legacy interrupt mode, referred as XICS (POWER7/8). When a device is passed-through into the guest, the source interrupts are from a different HW controller (PHB4) and the ESB - pages exposed to the guest should accommadate this change. + pages exposed to the guest should accommodate this change. The passthru_irq helpers, kvmppc_xive_set_mapped() and kvmppc_xive_clr_mapped() are called when the device HW irqs are diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.rst index 4f1a1b23d99c..c82a04b709b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.rst @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ before giving up the cpu to the scheduler in order to let something else run. Polling provides a latency advantage in cases where the guest can be run again very quickly by at least saving us a trip through the scheduler, normally on the order of a few micro-seconds, although performance benefits are workload -dependant. In the event that no wakeup source arrives during the polling +dependent. In the event that no wakeup source arrives during the polling interval or some other task on the runqueue is runnable the scheduler is invoked. Thus halt polling is especially useful on workloads with very short wakeup periods where the time spent halt polling is minimised and the time diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst index 26f62034b6f3..d47595b33fcf 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/mmu.rst @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: unsynchronized children). unsync_child_bitmap: A bitmap indicating which sptes in spt point (directly or indirectly) at - pages that may be unsynchronized. Used to quickly locate all unsychronized + pages that may be unsynchronized. Used to quickly locate all unsynchronized pages reachable from a given page. clear_spte_count: Only present on 32-bit hosts, where a 64-bit spte cannot be written diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/running-nested-guests.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/running-nested-guests.rst index 71136fe1723b..87326413d5c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/running-nested-guests.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/running-nested-guests.rst @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Enabling "nested" (s390x) $ modprobe kvm nested=1 .. note:: On s390x, the kernel parameter ``hpage`` is mutually exclusive - with the ``nested`` paramter — i.e. to be able to enable + with the ``nested`` parameter — i.e. to be able to enable ``nested``, the ``hpage`` parameter *must* be disabled. 2. The guest hypervisor (L1) must be provided with the ``sie`` CPU diff --git a/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst b/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst index af2a97429692..d1cfe415e4c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst @@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ between a driver and the host at the UML command line is OK security-wise. Allowing it as a loadable module parameter isn't. -If such functionality is desireable for a particular application +If such functionality is desirable for a particular application (e.g. loading BPF "firmware" for raw socket network transports), it should be off by default and should be explicitly turned on as a command line parameter at startup. |