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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Paging and memory sharing for HVM guests

To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Paging and memory sharing for HVM guests
From: Patrick Colp <pjcolp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:05:47 -0800
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew Peace <Andrew.Peace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Grzegorz Milos <gm281@xxxxxxxxx>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Jan Beulich wrote:
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> 17.12.09 17:38 >>>
1). The  "*mfnp |= 0x80000000U;" and "*mfnp |= 0xf0000000U;" should
   use a #define. Maybe copy over the #defines from the xen tree ?

Did you find any defines in the tools sources for that? The only place I
found this condition being checked at all was in xc_map_foreign_pages(),
where it used hard-coded values. Or are you referring to the
XEN_DOMCTL_PFINFO_* values? I'd say they're being mis-used when
applied to the mfn array used by mmap-batch (including apparent
pre-existing uses).

I think many people agree that this idea of using 0xf0000000 is a very inelegant solution (myself included). Maybe now would be a good time to hash out what the proper way to deal with this is. I think this discussion should extend to the privcmd/libxc mmap interfaces generally as well.


Patrick

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