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[Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH] Unmmap guest's EPT mapping for poison memory

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH] Unmmap guest's EPT mapping for poison memory
From: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:41:42 +0800
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Thanks for review. I will re-send it as patch submission.

Thanks
--jyh

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Deegan [mailto:Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 9:38 PM
>To: Jiang, Yunhong
>Cc: Keir Fraser; xen-devel
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unmmap guest's EPT mapping for poison memory
>
>At 10:19 +0100 on 13 Sep (1284373193), Jiang, Yunhong wrote:
>> I'm not sure if the change to the _gfn_to_mfn_type() is
>> acceptable. Especially, if it is right to change the mfn to be
>> INVALID_MFN. The idea to change the mfn to be INVALID_MFN is, we don't
>> need to change every caller for broken type (I noticed the PoD/sharing
>> etc checked each caller), but depends on caller will check the mfn to
>> be valid or not.
>
>That's fine.  All callers _should_ check the type but there's no harm in
>changing the mfn as a double precaution, even if everything else was right.
>
>Acked-by: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>--
>Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Principal Software Engineer, XenServer Engineering
>Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)

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