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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]vbd/vnif paravirtulization driver hypervisorsuppo

To: Xiaofeng Ling <xiaofeng.ling@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]vbd/vnif paravirtulization driver hypervisorsupport]
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 08:58:41 +0100
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On 3 Jun 2005, at 03:40, Xiaofeng Ling wrote:

It's now all use shadow_mode_external, and use a permit bitmap for hypercall from vmx domain.
Do you think it's now acceptable?
It's against 1657.

Still messy imo. When I said to split the path by shadow_mode_externel, I meant you should do it within the uaccess macros/functions; not in their callers.

But I'm not sure that is the best way either. Since VMX uses so few hypercalls, and you can easily define a new hypercall jump table in C, why not jump at alternative wrappers for those hypercalls that do the correct copy to/from guest, and then share the common guts of the hypercall with the paravirtualised version? I guess it depends how embedded in the core of each hypercall the VMX changes are...

 -- Keir


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