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authorAdemar de Souza Reis Jr <areis@redhat.com>2011-12-05 16:54:14 -0300
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-12-06 10:10:21 +0000
commit69ddaf6659c006599b530feb50604a584c79f329 (patch)
treea0281e376a42a91560dc65013f3c4e43bda07b26
parent31b631936376042a503b5378d9716137b170b758 (diff)
memory: minor documentation fixes/enhancements
Fix typos and minor documentation errors in both memory.h and docs/memory.txt. Also add missing documentation formatting tags to transaction functions. Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> Signed-off-by: Ademar de Souza Reis Jr <areis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
-rw-r--r--docs/memory.txt6
-rw-r--r--memory.h38
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/docs/memory.txt b/docs/memory.txt
index 3fc1683d88..5bbee8e85d 100644
--- a/docs/memory.txt
+++ b/docs/memory.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ machine. It attempts to allow modelling of:
- ordinary RAM
- memory-mapped I/O (MMIO)
- memory controllers that can dynamically reroute physical memory regions
- to different destinations
+ to different destinations
The memory model provides support for
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ pci (0-2^32-1)
ram: ram@0x00000000-0xffffffff
-The is a (simplified) PC memory map. The 4GB RAM block is mapped into the
+This is a (simplified) PC memory map. The 4GB RAM block is mapped into the
system address space via two aliases: "lomem" is a 1:1 mapping of the first
3.5GB; "himem" maps the last 0.5GB at address 4GB. This leaves 0.5GB for the
so-called PCI hole, that allows a 32-bit PCI bus to exist in a system with
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ various constraints can be supplied to control how these callbacks are called:
- .impl.min_access_size, .impl.max_access_size define the access sizes
(in bytes) supported by the *implementation*; other access sizes will be
emulated using the ones available. For example a 4-byte write will be
- emulated using four 1-byte write, if .impl.max_access_size = 1.
+ emulated using four 1-byte writes, if .impl.max_access_size = 1.
- .impl.valid specifies that the *implementation* only supports unaligned
accesses; unaligned accesses will be emulated by two aligned accesses.
- .old_portio and .old_mmio can be used to ease porting from code using
diff --git a/memory.h b/memory.h
index 53bf261792..beae1274d5 100644
--- a/memory.h
+++ b/memory.h
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ struct MemoryRegionPortio {
/**
* memory_region_init: Initialize a memory region
*
- * The region typically acts as a container for other memory regions. Us
+ * The region typically acts as a container for other memory regions. Use
* memory_region_add_subregion() to add subregions.
*
* @mr: the #MemoryRegion to be initialized
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ void memory_region_init(MemoryRegion *mr,
/**
* memory_region_init_io: Initialize an I/O memory region.
*
- * Accesses into the region will be cause the callbacks in @ops to be called.
+ * Accesses into the region will cause the callbacks in @ops to be called.
* if @size is nonzero, subregions will be clipped to @size.
*
* @mr: the #MemoryRegion to be initialized.
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ void memory_region_init_io(MemoryRegion *mr,
/**
* memory_region_init_ram: Initialize RAM memory region. Accesses into the
- * region will be modify memory directly.
+ * region will modify memory directly.
*
* @mr: the #MemoryRegion to be initialized.
* @dev: a device associated with the region; may be %NULL.
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ void memory_region_init_ram(MemoryRegion *mr,
/**
* memory_region_init_ram: Initialize RAM memory region from a user-provided.
- * pointer. Accesses into the region will be modify
+ * pointer. Accesses into the region will modify
* memory directly.
*
* @mr: the #MemoryRegion to be initialized.
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ void memory_region_init_rom_device(MemoryRegion *mr,
uint64_t size);
/**
- * memory_region_destroy: Destroy a memory region and relaim all resources.
+ * memory_region_destroy: Destroy a memory region and reclaim all resources.
*
* @mr: the region to be destroyed. May not currently be a subregion
* (see memory_region_add_subregion()) or referenced in an alias
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ void memory_region_clear_coalescing(MemoryRegion *mr);
*
* Marks a word in an IO region (initialized with memory_region_init_io())
* as a trigger for an eventfd event. The I/O callback will not be called.
- * The caller must be prepared to handle failure (hat is, take the required
+ * The caller must be prepared to handle failure (that is, take the required
* action if the callback _is_ called).
*
* @mr: the memory region being updated.
@@ -435,10 +435,10 @@ void memory_region_add_eventfd(MemoryRegion *mr,
int fd);
/**
- * memory_region_del_eventfd: Cancel and eventfd.
+ * memory_region_del_eventfd: Cancel an eventfd.
*
- * Cancels an eventfd trigger request by a previous memory_region_add_eventfd()
- * call.
+ * Cancels an eventfd trigger requested by a previous
+ * memory_region_add_eventfd() call.
*
* @mr: the memory region being updated.
* @addr: the address within @mr that is to be monitored
@@ -454,9 +454,9 @@ void memory_region_del_eventfd(MemoryRegion *mr,
uint64_t data,
int fd);
/**
- * memory_region_add_subregion: Add a sub-region to a container.
+ * memory_region_add_subregion: Add a subregion to a container.
*
- * Adds a sub-region at @offset. The sub-region may not overlap with other
+ * Adds a subregion at @offset. The subregion may not overlap with other
* subregions (except for those explicitly marked as overlapping). A region
* may only be added once as a subregion (unless removed with
* memory_region_del_subregion()); use memory_region_init_alias() if you
@@ -471,9 +471,9 @@ void memory_region_add_subregion(MemoryRegion *mr,
target_phys_addr_t offset,
MemoryRegion *subregion);
/**
- * memory_region_add_subregion: Add a sub-region to a container, with overlap.
+ * memory_region_add_subregion: Add a subregion to a container, with overlap.
*
- * Adds a sub-region at @offset. The sub-region may overlap with other
+ * Adds a subregion at @offset. The subregion may overlap with other
* subregions. Conflicts are resolved by having a higher @priority hide a
* lower @priority. Subregions without priority are taken as @priority 0.
* A region may only be added once as a subregion (unless removed with
@@ -501,11 +501,17 @@ void memory_region_add_subregion_overlap(MemoryRegion *mr,
void memory_region_del_subregion(MemoryRegion *mr,
MemoryRegion *subregion);
-/* Start a transaction; changes will be accumulated and made visible only
- * when the transaction ends.
+/**
+ * memory_region_transaction_begin: Start a transaction.
+ *
+ * During a transaction, changes will be accumulated and made visible
+ * only when the transaction ends (is commited).
*/
void memory_region_transaction_begin(void);
-/* Commit a transaction and make changes visible to the guest.
+
+/**
+ * memory_region_transaction_commit: Commit a transaction and make changes
+ * visible to the guest.
*/
void memory_region_transaction_commit(void);