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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] enable tmem functionality for PV on HVM guests
| To: | Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] enable tmem functionality for PV on HVM guests |
| From: | Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:39:25 +0100 |
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On 21/06/2010 18:14, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (Keir, please also apply for 4.0.1 if it's not too late.) > > Enable tmem functionality for PV on HVM guests. Guest kernel > must still be tmem-enabled to use this functionality (e.g. > won't work for Windows), but upstream Linux tmem (aka > cleancache and frontswap) patches apply cleanly on top > of PV on HVM patches. > > Also, fix up some ASSERTS and code used only when bad guest > mfns are passed to tmem. Previous code could crash Xen > if a buggy/malicious guest passes bad gmfns. This patch doesn't apply to xen-unstable tip. -- Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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