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RE: [Xen-users] PIO from domU

To: "Vadim Makhervaks" <vmakhervaks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] PIO from domU
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:23:09 -0000
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> What do you envision to be a proper solution for this 
> problem? Something along the lines of module running in domO 
> capable grant access or transfer IO pages ownership to domU? 
> Similar to existing grant_table interface?

We'll have a dom0 op that enables a suitably privileged domain to assign
one or more ranges of machine address space to another domain, and
update the 'failure path' of get_page_from_l1e to try chcking the
assigned ranges as a last resort.

Ian

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