Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 05 of 10] Introduce a grant_entry_v2 structure

[Steven Smith <steven.smith@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> >> It would seem that this should be a GUEST_HANDLE, or is there any
> >> particular reason to not declare it so?
> > Mostly that GUEST_HANDLE isn't 32/64 invariant, and I didn't want to
> > have to introduce yet more compat shims.
> > 
> > If there's a strong consensus that GUEST_HANDLE is preferable then it
> > could be switched easily enough, but it seems kind of silly to
> > continue introducing more ABIs which aren't 64-bit clean.
> I think now we have guest handles we should just use them, and the guest
> access macros, consistently. Despite it requiring us to have a (pretty
> trivial) compat shim.
Okay.

I'll post another series which includes those changes (plus the other
ones suggested in review) in a couple of seconds.

Steven.

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