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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 8 of 8 DOCDAY] docs: hypercall: document mmuext_o

To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 8 of 8 DOCDAY] docs: hypercall: document mmuext_op using Doxygen
From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:43:08 +0100
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On 26/10/11 14:02, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> + * An additional MMU hypercall provides an `extended command'
> + * interface. This provides additional functionality beyond the basic
> + * table updating commands. This hypercall is used to perform
> + * additional MMU operations. These include updating cr3 (or just
> + * re-installing it for a TLB flush), requesting various kinds of TLB
> + * flush, flushing the cache, installing a new LDT, or pinning &
> + * unpinning page-table pages (to ensure their reference count doesn’t
> + * drop to zero which would require a revalidation of all entries).

Bullet points linked to the docs for the specific op might be more
useful here (rather than the long comma-separated list).


> +/** \ingroup HYPERVISOR_mmuext_op

Consider using the @{ @} markers to put adjacent items into the same
group rather than having \ingroup for each item.

David

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