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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Linux Stubdom Problem
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Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx> |
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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Linux Stubdom Problem |
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Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx> |
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Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:02:07 +0100 |
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"xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jiageng Yu <yujiageng734@xxxxxxxxx>, Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxx>, Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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On 29/08/2011 17:03, "Stefano Stabellini" <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> Oh, so it will. You'd need to arrange for that to be called from inside
>> the guest; or you could implement an add_to_physmap space for it; that
>> could be called from another domain.
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> "From inside the guest" means hvmloader?
> The good thing about doing it in hvmloader is that we could use the
> traditional PV frontend/backend mechanism to share pages. On the other
> hand hvmloader doesn't know if we are using stubdoms at the moment and
> it would need to issue the grant table hypercall only in that case.
> Unless we decide to always grant the videoram to guests but it would
> change once again the domain to which the videoram is accounted for
> (dom0/stubdom rather than the guest, that is a bad thing).
> Also I don't like the idea of making hvmloader stubdom aware.
I don't see a problem with it, in principle. I see hvmloader as almost an
in-guest part of the toolstack. The fact that it only executes at guest boot
means it can be fairly closely tied to the toolstack version.
-- Keir
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