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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/overview.rst b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/overview.rst index cd493332c8..77408a89d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/hyperv/overview.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/hyperv/overview.rst @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Linux guests communicate with Hyper-V in four different ways: arm64, these synthetic registers must be accessed using explicit hypercalls. -* VMbus: VMbus is a higher-level software construct that is built on +* VMBus: VMBus is a higher-level software construct that is built on the other 3 mechanisms. It is a message passing interface between the Hyper-V host and the Linux guest. It uses memory that is shared between Hyper-V and the guest, along with various signaling @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ x86/x64 architecture only. .. _Hyper-V Top Level Functional Spec (TLFS): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/tlfs/tlfs -VMbus is not documented. This documentation provides a high-level -overview of VMbus and how it works, but the details can be discerned +VMBus is not documented. This documentation provides a high-level +overview of VMBus and how it works, but the details can be discerned only from the code. Sharing Memory @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ follows: physical address space. How Hyper-V is told about the GPA or list of GPAs varies. In some cases, a single GPA is written to a synthetic register. In other cases, a GPA or list of GPAs is sent - in a VMbus message. + in a VMBus message. * Hyper-V translates the GPAs into "real" physical memory addresses, and creates a virtual mapping that it can use to access the memory. @@ -133,9 +133,9 @@ only the CPUs actually present in the VM, so Linux does not report any hot-add CPUs. A Linux guest CPU may be taken offline using the normal Linux -mechanisms, provided no VMbus channel interrupts are assigned to -the CPU. See the section on VMbus Interrupts for more details -on how VMbus channel interrupts can be re-assigned to permit +mechanisms, provided no VMBus channel interrupts are assigned to +the CPU. See the section on VMBus Interrupts for more details +on how VMBus channel interrupts can be re-assigned to permit taking a CPU offline. 32-bit and 64-bit @@ -169,14 +169,14 @@ and functionality. Hyper-V indicates feature/function availability via flags in synthetic MSRs that Hyper-V provides to the guest, and the guest code tests these flags. -VMbus has its own protocol version that is negotiated during the -initial VMbus connection from the guest to Hyper-V. This version +VMBus has its own protocol version that is negotiated during the +initial VMBus connection from the guest to Hyper-V. This version number is also output to dmesg during boot. This version number is checked in a few places in the code to determine if specific functionality is present. -Furthermore, each synthetic device on VMbus also has a protocol -version that is separate from the VMbus protocol version. Device +Furthermore, each synthetic device on VMBus also has a protocol +version that is separate from the VMBus protocol version. Device drivers for these synthetic devices typically negotiate the device protocol version, and may test that protocol version to determine if specific device functionality is present. |